Wow, Vancouver’s abrupt transition from skyscrapers to single family homes is a prime example of “Missing Middle Housing”, and unsurprisingly, their housing prices reflect that
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Wow.. that's really interesting. Cities skylines 2 coming soon!! This makes me wanna upgrade this whole picture haha.. don't they want more taxes or?
It's usually the people who own those single family homes vote to block rezoning their neighborhood to allow denser apartment buildings, even if it's just the 3-5 floor "missing middle" type. AKA the "NIMBY"
and it's not like local politicians personally get extra tax revenue coming in, but they do benefit from making those NIMBY people happy by getting votes in elections. So unfortunately they're incentivized to allow that housing-blocking behavior rather than push for more efficient use of land.
right.. I guess that's what's happening everywhere..