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Future president Spencer Pratt is in trouble for saying LA should be ‘beautiful’ again

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1. Just make them pretty, stupid

America’s favorite future president Spencer Pratt is in some trouble after arguing LA should be “beautiful” again, and “No more of these high-density, SB-79, prison-like structures. We need to bring Art Deco back.” Housing advocates are furious, and look, high-density is important. But Pratt specifically called out the disgusting cookie cutter Lego-looking plastic box buildings of the sort we all — or all of us with a soul — hate. The problem here is YIMBYs spent the last decade associating the phrase “high-density” with “ugly,” even often explicitly defending ugliness to some ambiguous far off utilitarian end. Frankly, I think Spencer is just confused, and new to this, and would be fine with high-density deco buildings, which are already all over LA. And that confusion is on YIMBYs, who will now unfortunately learn the hard way: if you tell people ugly things are good, they will just assume you’re evil. Just make things pretty, stupid.

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