That moment when you post something that is a sad truism today (screenshot to follow this paragraph) and you get a comment that makes you laugh out loud (bottom of post screenshot.)
So it is “rich” that this guy thinks being an asshat with his comment makes him think that he appears smart.
He don’t even know what he’s talking about.
This mansplaining man child is actually BLAMING people who stand up to development or complain about development for housing prices. He actually thinks smaller lot development + lots more infill development = affordable housing. Actually all THAT is = to is a developer’s wet wanky dream because to them it = more development. They don’t care about affordability, only the money that they can make off of a development before they move onto the next community crushing development.
I guess that’s what is called pretzel logic economics.
I mean I guess it would be convenient and totally trendy beige man to blame the evil blogher for real estate prices but it’s just not realistic, is it? I mean gosh that would make me the oracle and wow I almost spit out my coffee when I read the comment.
Communities would welcome houses that were actually affordable, and we’re not even talking Section 8 subsidized housing, we’re talking about starter homes for young couples that moved back to an area where they were raised, or change of life housing for those who are older, who want to stay in the communities where they raised their families but wish to downsize.
But all we get in our communities is the BS the developers want shoved down our throats. Apartment buildings, condos, townhouses what I have called cram plans for over 20 years.
I actually had a realtor say in response to that guy’s comment that new construction is not the answer, that they are not sure what the answer is at this point.
Then you had the realtor who was taking an online marketing course recently probably because he had to say prices only go up in areas that are desirable. Has he looked at real estate everywhere? It doesn’t matter where it’s located. The prices are utterly ridiculous.
If you want to know partially why this is happening, check out this video before Mr. Mansplain’s screenshot:
I don’t pretend to have all the answers. I don’t pretend to necessarily have any of the answers except in Pennsylvania. I will honestly say, if state legislators got off their asses and updated the Municipalities Planning Code it would probably help.
Our communities are under siege. It’s either development or speculative and predatory real estate investors and it’s driving the people that used to make up the place we call home further and further out of the area. And this is happening everywhere. It’s even happening on the Main Line.
One of the things I first noticed when I moved to Chester County was a lot of the people I knew growing up on the Main Line, who I thought were super nice were living out here. They had moved to escape the infill development on the Main Line and what it brought with it.
But this march, this assault on our communities, no matter where we live, is not abating. It’s also not sustainable, so then what?
But please don’t present me with pretzel logic economics while I’m drinking my coffee. It’s really not fair and it ruins a perfectly good espresso.
Ciao for now. I hope you have enjoyed this episode of pretzel logic economics meets mansplaning Friday. 
In the Tredyffrin part of Devon, a builder bought a lot on Berkley Ave just east of the Horse show grounds. What did they build? Affordable housing? Nope. Townhomes with asking prices over $1m each. This is being repeated all over our region.
Also, the building industry spent a lot of time cultivating relationships in order to change zoning regs to favor high cost rentals. Look no further than the zoning changes for Easttown in 2012 that heavily pushed by a land planner, the planning commission and 3 members of the board of supervisors. The changes all centered around creating high density apartments designed for affluent individuals. They even took away ANY limitation on density. Not to build affordable housing. That was the last thing they wished to do. The builders for Berwyn Square, testified under Oath in Zoning Hearings that they were targeting affluent individuals. Over and over again. Not one mention of affordability.
The building industry has almost zero interest in building anything affordable for the working or middle classes unless they receive a huge dose of corporate welfare.
The guy who typed that comment gives all clueless people a bad name.
I will also add that people want more starter homes. The industry does not. The regs have been changed to overly favor them and what did we get? A bunch of cookie cutter crap with all the charm of something build in the Soviet Union in 1957. This guy wants it to be easy to build crap. It already is easier. If the current standards were reduced can you imagine the crap they would build? No thanks.