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Housing affordability drives supercommuting

In urbanist and YIMBY circles, we often talk a lot about missing middle housing, but this is actually a very broad category. This video gives more in-depth information about the kinds of missing middle housing and how prevalent they are in the five biggest Canadian cities.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7639583

> This video by BritMonkey gives an introduction to Georgism and the importance of land value taxation.

This video explains zoning and how these often obscure codes tremendously influence our built environment.

Oftentimes people claim that the housing crisis is a result of investors outbidding regular home buyers, not a fundamental shortage of supply. This video debunks that idea, using the city of Rotterdam -- which effectively banned buy-to-let speculators across much of the city -- as an example. The result actually worsened housing affordability for lower-income households and increased gentrification.

In short, there is no solving the housing crisis without simply building more housing.

CityNerd presents a broad thesis video on why urbanism is good, why we should have more of it, and the way in which our cities could be better.

I don't know about y'all, but I'll GLADLY say, "Yes in my backyard!" to high-speed rail

This video by Oh the Urbanity! dives into the pro- and anti-housing arguments used by YIMBYs and NIMBYs across the political spectrum.

This video by CBC dives into "missing middle" housing, e.g., townhouses, plexes, etc.