Oh, I believe it. That's great! I don't mind that people who want to live like that CAN live like that if they can afford it. But it should not be the ONLY way people can live. Right now our laws prevent us from building affordable and livable homes like I mentioned above. Only the richest get to live in such communities.
Google 'missing middle'. There are tons of laws restricting what kind of homes can be built so we end up with whole swaths of cities being a single kind of home that is unaffordable and doesn't work for a lot of people.
We no longer build the types of urban homes that were popular when this was primarily an agrarian country, and this only happened because of zoning laws?
Do these laws serve no other purpose other than to prevent building? Which of these laws can be discarded to 'solve' the housing problem? Which should we keep?
Try to build a multi unit housing development in just about every SFH neighborhood in North America and you will quickly discover the layers of laws that actively prevent it.
Plus, if the choice is going to be between great family homes for some + terrible quality ultra-expensive appartements for most, or decent reasonably priced appartements for everyone but few family homes.. then yeah, screw family homes.
