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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the entire US has a "missing middle" and a suburb problem brought on by big corporations. You get into you car, burn gas for 20 minutes to go to their 1 super mega everything mall. They also banned the idea of having local store in a "residential area" to force you to go to the everything store.

The missing middle

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that explains why suburbs are bad, not why apartments wouldn't work there

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not sure where you got "appartments wouldn't work there".

The entire video is about the missing middle, the midrises /appartments missing between the suburbs and the city. As pointed out in the video, the missing middle comes from the fact it's illegal to build midrises in most "residential areas"