yeah, he outlines the problems really clearly and how it can be solved. I was just talking about it with some people yesterday, with the current Californa contentions about removing minimum parking requirements for affordable housing.

Alot of people are protesting turning ugly lots into affordable housing...ugh. Literally the reasons we can't have nice things. "Parking in multistory garages instead of a giant 500 car lot so there affordable housing is unacceptable, its inconvenient and it will bring in undesirable" - basically Menlo

Friend of mine lives outside LA, they used a motel 6 into temporary housing for unhoused, no problem. They went to make it housing units for said homeless, locals got pissed, fought toooth and nail, said itd bring in undeasaribles, increase crime etc etc.

Officials were confused bcs the people they where complaining about had been living there for 3 years already jus they where converting it from "motel 6" to basically an apartment building. smh.

Mixed use buildings and affordable housing without needing cars is such a dream 15-20 minutes cycle would be nice, shame its so uncommon and so disliked by some people no one gets it. To my closest store its a 10 minute drive / ~hour walk (before they canceled the bus route it was also a bit over an hour but 2 hours back) city has a quarter mile / 0.4km of bike lane and alot of streets dont have sidewalks

40k people, smh (ofc its partly because of the extensive blatant corruption here but ah)

I want to take the elevator to work. Or walk across the street.