lumberjack wharfie is on neocities
immigration is a very good thing, and we should be facilitating it on a massive scale
7 september 2025
i believe this is something that needs to be said over and over:
immigration is a very good thing, and we should be facilitating it on a massive scale.
this isn't going to be a thoroughly revised piece of writing; it's going to be fairly
stream-of-consciousness. i intend to come back to this topic multiple times, and there is a lot to discuss
within it. but at the core of it, to me, is one fundamental stance:
immigration is a very good thing, and we should be facilitating it on a massive scale.
as everything is interconnected, expanding on that stance leads me right into the topics of housing and
the housing crisis. pretty much every one of our cities is not building enough housing -- certainly not
enough near jobs.
immigration should be facilitated on a massive scale, and this necessarily means we need a lot of new
housing. we need a lot of new housing even if there is very little immigration, so we should be
facilitating the development of housing on a massive scale as well.
from there we can branch off into so many topics, like ways to facilitate the development of housing, or
how we could and perhaps should build lots of housing collectively, and urbanist principles... like how
we should try to put lots of new housing near and amongst employment, how walkability and bikeability
and reliable public transit support liberation and opportunity...
i'll leave it there for now. there are some topics i think i'll want to write about multiple times as i
refine my thoughts; this is one of them.
