at council meetings I kept hearing wealthy single-family homeowners insist they fund the city while apartment and condo residents “don't pay their fair share” and drain city finances. This has been used as justification to block new housing… so I spent 6 months working on this video
I worked with Joe Minicozzi of Urban3 to go through the math-- per acre, dense neighborhoods (including poorer ones) tend to be the ones subsidizing low density sprawl. The low density sprawl couldn't be sustained financially if not for the apartment buildings.
Curious if anyone else here has run into the same "apartments are a drain" argument, and how you respond to it…
u/newsocks1382 — 8 days ago