False equivalency galore there. Talk about ridiculous.
There's plenty of justification for allowing people to choose what type of neighborhood they want to live in. Downtown L.A. is not "full." If you want high-density living, that's already available. There's no reason to destroy already-residential neighborhoods when there are tracts of disused non-residential areas to convert into housing, or high-density areas that aren't fully occupied.
Nothing in these laws helps the homeless. Nothing. If you're eating from garbage cans, you're not going to be able to buy the "luxury" housing that developers are going to build, nor the ONE "affordable" unit they're required to include to get all kinds of waivers.
Your perspective that allowing things like four-plexes is 'destroying' neighberhoods is just complexly delusional. Having four-plexes is not 'high density', not even closes. And nobody is destroying anything, the existing houses mostly stay there and most will remain single family homes.
What we are talking about is going from ridiculously low density that was literately created to keep out 'negros' to another form of low density zoning.
That the actual reality, acting like 2 families living is the same as Hong Kong is just fearmongering.
> Nothing in these laws helps the homeless. Nothing. If you're eating from garbage cans,
See the problem is you don't actually understand homelessness. You have one image in your head of what homeless is, and you can't see beyond that.
There are lots of people who have jobs and live in their cars. And there are plenty of people who start out that way and their situation gets worse.
You have people now living in cheap apartment blocks, those people might have the money to move to a newly built four-plex. That leaves an opening in an apartment block. Then somebody from a shelter might be able to move in. People go from older buildings into newer, leaving those housing units available.
This is the actual mechanism that you need to employ on all level to lower rents and make more space available for affordable apartments.
> nor the ONE "affordable" unit they're required to include to get all kinds of waivers.
Forcing developers to build 'affordable' units is the wrong approach.
There's plenty of justification for allowing people to choose what type of neighborhood they want to live in. Downtown L.A. is not "full." If you want high-density living, that's already available. There's no reason to destroy already-residential neighborhoods when there are tracts of disused non-residential areas to convert into housing, or high-density areas that aren't fully occupied.
Nothing in these laws helps the homeless. Nothing. If you're eating from garbage cans, you're not going to be able to buy the "luxury" housing that developers are going to build, nor the ONE "affordable" unit they're required to include to get all kinds of waivers.