re: Cities getting rid of single-family zoning

Yup.

Most middle class to upper middle class people, particularly with families, don’t want to live in or around multi-family housing.

When you make it a mixed up free-for-all, they’ll simply leave. You’ll have really wealthy people living in high rises and poor people living in crappy looking complexes and nothing in between.

This has UN Agenda 2030 written all over it. No pun intended.

This is fricking terrible. Rotten shitbag pukes are trying to destroy this country.

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People ought to be allowed to build whatever the eff they want to build

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As long as they don't build next to me, right?

This idea won't work everywhere. In the article the developers said this won't result in a ton of new infill housing in most places. My best guess is most of the infill will only happen in walkable neighborhoods near commercial corridors and good transit access (i.e. near the rail line in Minneapolis).

Also if done correctly its a way to keep aging and income restricted homeowner residents in increasing expensive urban neighborhoods. There might be some folks with 4 bedroom houses where the kids are gone who don't want to sellout and move. Why shouldn't they be allowed to use the equity to create a second unit that they rent out for income while they live there. In this case there are no negative impacts as they probably created more traffic/waste/noise, etc. when they had 4 children living in the house than renting a second unit to 2 young professionals.