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RemcoProgrammer t1_j4uh5f3 wrote

It's not really NIMBYism that we don't build enough, it's (extremely necessary) environmental laws and not having enough builders and building materials. Foreign builders could help if they had a place to sleep between shifts...

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Mister_Lich t1_j4vnq1u wrote

This is completely untrue for the USA (this comment chain is talking about the USA - that's mostly what I'm talking about), look up anything to do with the Bay Area and San Francisco when it comes to the legendary NIMBYism in that area. They do things like preserve "historic" laundromats and parking lots to avoid building multi-hundred unit apartment complexes (and of course, a good 20% or more of those would always be relegated for affordable housing - this would do nothing but help the city and its residents.)

No idea about the Netherlands' specific issues, to be fair.

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RemcoProgrammer t1_j4vopsq wrote

Ah OK, I was talking about the Netherlands in particular, sorry for the confusion.

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Mister_Lich t1_j4vovzm wrote

Np! I realized that this post was actually about the Netherlands so I probably am getting some people in this thread confused lol

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