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In 2023, 54% of the housing units in the US were single family detached, https://eyeonhousing.org/2024/10/owner-occupied-single-famil.... I guess some of those could not have yards, but that is pretty rare to not have any sort of yard in a single family detached home.

2/3 of home buyers have single family detached as their preferred housing, so more people want to live in that type of housing than currently do so.

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In the area with which I'm familiar it's a zoning/planning requirement to dedicate some proportion of lot area to yard. I forget the details -- it's been a while since I dug into this. I think that's also why mother in law units became popular in some jurisdictions: a workaround for yard area requirements since it piggy backs on the existing home yard arrangement.

Hear hear! Thank you. People are downvoting like mad because they want to drive their own agendas and are afraid of reality, except reality stands undefeated. Everyone wants a piece they call their own. Fighting against it is fighting against basic human nature. Give up your climate agenda. It's dead. Even Bill Gates said it.

No. You are being downvoted because observable facts support the opposite of your claims; and because you have apparently ignored many people who pointed out several things wrong with your claim — in a variety of ways — to cherry-pick someone who agrees with you; and because you propose to generalize the feelings of other people who are speaking up that they don't feel the way you imagine that "everyone" does; and because you are casting aspersions on others.

The only person who presented any evidence is the GP and it affirms my claim. Can you present the evidence you so speak of?

What you chose to argue against, by its nature, does not require evidence. The entire point is that you made a universal claim about what other people think. Others saying "I do not think that way" disproves your claim. It is not necessary for others to evidence that they don't think that way; saying so ipso facto establishes it.

Much of the rest of what is said here contra your viewpoint is also readily observable common knowledge.

I would suggest you read the Gates report. I'm not sure how much to engage here, except to say emphatically that Gates said nothing of the sort. TL;DR - health and development funding should be considered as a more marginally impactful form of foreign and domestic government investment, but only because of the rapid (and ongoing) progress already seen in emissions reduction.

Here's a quote:

> To be clear: Climate change is a very important problem. It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition. Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.

Reducing sprawl is plainly a good strategy to reduce transportation and infrastructure needs, and preserve wildlife.

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