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@toegrimes One problem being that it's in Texas.

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@kitchentowel Yeah. The anti-Whitehall stuff is mostly cheap politicking.

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@IBeChichi_ Any improvement to an area will gentrify. Pretty silly to think any improvement is bad because it leads to gentrification.

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@ricyeboah @zziz91225989z If you want housing to be more affordable generally, then you should support more market rate housing, which puts downward pressure on housing across the market. There's not really any such thing as building "affordable" housing from scratch. Like wanting cars to be built used.

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@sands659 @cjsbishop Very dumb reasons.

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@mrrev67 @cjsbishop In the thousands of other parking spots in the area?

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@lfg_uk Why do you have to do this braindead slop?

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@jo3hill @restate_thinks He includes the same nonsense requirement that would make it less efficient and more expensive.

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@marinajewels_ Depends how you interpret the question, I guess. I thought it's obvious it refers to the poor running of projects like HS2, not scoping detail.

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@beachhawk874 @JosephMothers2 @Danielstilwell Leftists like Dan won't understand the nuance.

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@investor_bod @sallonsax I think it's a bit less absurd.

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@LiamHoughton @tomhfh Amusingly, both can be true.

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@marinajewels_ Did you read the original post, and the Reddit question Burnham was responding to? How is "should have started in the north" an answer to the question?

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@kathyf I don't think you have to wonder about what Americans will stand for. You can look at the data on how many don't have healthcare access at all.

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@investor_bod @sallonsax Bit of a reductio ad absurdum there.

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@marinajewels_ Okay, so what? How would that have changed the rest of the project being disastrously done? It would have made it even more expensive.

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@DanielCochlin @rcolvile Why would that have made any difference at all?

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@rcolvile @stevewotton @_colinjk @v_j_freeman So... Could be a model for what he's talking about? Public control, private sector governance?

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@HugoPap2 One part of the problem being that the planning restrictions on private housing supply also restricts council housing supply.