the berkeley city council is considering extending the maximum development height around the rapid transit station to 12-18 stories (from 7). a bunch of infosheets explaining how this is bad and capitalist have been dropped around the neighborhood, and someone knocked on my door to give me one. i'm trying to figure out which side are the NIMBYs here https://www.neighborsnottowers.com/
boosting this because i'd like some help forming an opinion
like on the one hand more housing sounds good, right? but the arguments the page outlines against more market-rate housing doing anything to solve the problem SOUND legitimate and i can't easily tell if they're just a smokescreen
@Paravellex i think this is prettu cut and dry. expensive housing developments only benefit landlords and developers. as the site points out, the problem isnt a lack of homes, its that theyre being deliberately kept away from most people
