Every single article about housing affordability on HN has the same comments. I don't know who actually writes these comments, but their solution is to just reduce the quality of life of people by increasing housing density. They think that somehow this idea has escaped everybody and they are geniuses for thinking of it. Everybody who doesn't want to smell other people's shit is called a "nimby", and infinite population growth is supposedly the only rational path forward.
Are the people making these comments the same people that will happily live in this situation? Are they rich people that will never live in this environment, or are they young progressives who think they want to live in a high-rise and have sex with robots or whatever despite being 20 and not knowing anything? Or are they immigrants trying to get into a country?
It just makes sense that when many people want to live in a small area, that you allow builders to meet that demand. Having sex with robots?
What are you even talking about? Plenty of people would rather sacrifice the large spaces of a single family home so that they can be close to an urban core. It could be because they want to be closer to their work or just want to enjoy the environment of the city. It's just as much a quality of life issue when they are priced out of that.
No. New Zealand's most common form of housing (not "rich people") is a stand-alone house. The solution always proposed on HN is to increase density. To convert housing into apartments. Meaning the new standard in a decade will be apartments. You are decreasing the quality of life of the average person and not the quality of life of rich people, who live in a mansion with a giant yard.
Not across the whole country, just in the area around Aukland's urban core. And I'm not convinced it actually decreases the quality of life of the average person. In fact, I'd wager that it increases it, by reducing cost of living.
Are the people making these comments the same people that will happily live in this situation? Are they rich people that will never live in this environment, or are they young progressives who think they want to live in a high-rise and have sex with robots or whatever despite being 20 and not knowing anything? Or are they immigrants trying to get into a country?