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GoodLt t1_j6265b9 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in County saves Jersey Shore woods as open space in $8.5M deal, killing plan to build houses by sutisuc

Um, no. The cost of housing is high for many reasons, among them the desirability of living in NJ (yes, that's a thing). Housing supply isn't the issue - the supply of affordable housing is the issue. Ruining an open space and building yet another glob job of high-priced housing isn't going to do a damned thing for the prices of housing in the state.

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tehbored t1_j626u46 wrote

Housing supply is absolutely the issue. NJ, like many states, has a massive undersupply. But more single family homes will not help significantly. What we need is more medium and high density construction. Even if the new units are all market rate, prices will still decline, but it needs to be a lot of units.

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DarwinZDF42 t1_j635ocw wrote

Okay so like what about, for example, Red Bank then? Everyone here is cool with Red Bank putting up a bunch of mid-rises in their downtown, right? Nobody’s opposing that? Bc the consistent position here would be loading up every Main Street and downtown with mid-rise mixed use. But all I see is blanket opposition to everything.

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DarwinZDF42 t1_j635i45 wrote

The cost of housing in NJ is high because there’s a shortage and we don’t build nearly enough of it.

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