Sprawl is the worst. We have enough of it already. Bring back the traditional small town with a street grid and an actual downtown with small shops. Screw the big box corporate sprawl. Time to make towns great again
While I don't disagree with the sentiment of NOT bulldoznig wildlands for walmarts, everything else you said is pretty much wrong. We're NOT experiencing a population decline. Our population IS growing by most metrics. Both through immigration and through birth rates.
The birth rate thing is a giant lie that's manipulated by statistical oddities. For example, for decades the western world (including the US) has done EVERYTHING we could to lower and eliminate teenage birth rates. And we've largely been successful. Teenage birthrates are at a historical low to the point they're a rounding error in the grand scheme of things at this point. But despite this teenagers (and in some places girls as young as 10-12) are counted in birth rate statistics. In the US specifically they make up roughly 20-30% of the "birthing age female population).
So you have a fifth to nearly a third of the statistic group, actively being manipulated by outside forces to NOT do the thing you're testing. That obviously throws off final stats greatly. If you throw out that group and account for only "acceptable birthing age" the US birth rate is like 2.0-2.1, and some years 2.2 or above. Combine that with net immigration (even just limited legal immigration which most people are alright with), and we still have a healthy growing population.
PERSONALLY, I do agree though that we need to spend less time and money on developing new ghettos and slums (let's be honest, that's all section 8 is), and more time and money on fixing up the dilapidated parts of our existing cities and revitalizing our own small towns. Though realistically I don't think any of this is really going to be a problem. Post cabal, when the economy is infinitely better and there's a massive boom in production jobs, things like small town and ghetto revitalization will happen naturally and eliminate the need for stuff like this.
The only REAL use for this kind of thing in my opinion is to open up and privatize the massive amounts of farm and ranch land out west to farmers and ranchers. I mean serious, half the state is owned by the feds in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. Most of the Prime land with good water is fed land which forces farmers and ranchers to fight for leases with good water. I'd be open to something like that.
Enacting this sort of thinking gives the government unlimited power over your property. A developer is going to 'revitalize' a shopping center but needs an additional two acres. Property owners are forced to sell to the developer.
How about abolishing property zoning so that the urban 'landscape' can change as needed instead of being planned by city dimwits looking to squeeze every penny out of land?
You make some very excellent points and I agree with many of them. We really have screwed ourselves in many ways. I do still feel like New Urbanism type development is part of the solution. Sprawl is making us bankrupt as it’s massively subsidized and financially inefficient compared to traditional towns. But all it takes is a section 8 down the street and there goes the neighborhood- so everyone moves out and only the losers remain, and there goes the town itself. So no more subsidized housing at all. That should be gutted. Property taxes are a big part of it too - cities trying to tax their way out of debt or to pay for ‘dem programs’ drive people out too…. And then you get politicians who are bought and paid for by corrupt developers and lowlife democrat welfare residents and next thing you know the whole place turns into Detroit and all the people abandon the city
Sprawl is the worst. We have enough of it already. Bring back the traditional small town with a street grid and an actual downtown with small shops. Screw the big box corporate sprawl. Time to make towns great again
Gosh we millennials feel this so badly
While I don't disagree with the sentiment of NOT bulldoznig wildlands for walmarts, everything else you said is pretty much wrong. We're NOT experiencing a population decline. Our population IS growing by most metrics. Both through immigration and through birth rates.
The birth rate thing is a giant lie that's manipulated by statistical oddities. For example, for decades the western world (including the US) has done EVERYTHING we could to lower and eliminate teenage birth rates. And we've largely been successful. Teenage birthrates are at a historical low to the point they're a rounding error in the grand scheme of things at this point. But despite this teenagers (and in some places girls as young as 10-12) are counted in birth rate statistics. In the US specifically they make up roughly 20-30% of the "birthing age female population).
So you have a fifth to nearly a third of the statistic group, actively being manipulated by outside forces to NOT do the thing you're testing. That obviously throws off final stats greatly. If you throw out that group and account for only "acceptable birthing age" the US birth rate is like 2.0-2.1, and some years 2.2 or above. Combine that with net immigration (even just limited legal immigration which most people are alright with), and we still have a healthy growing population.
PERSONALLY, I do agree though that we need to spend less time and money on developing new ghettos and slums (let's be honest, that's all section 8 is), and more time and money on fixing up the dilapidated parts of our existing cities and revitalizing our own small towns. Though realistically I don't think any of this is really going to be a problem. Post cabal, when the economy is infinitely better and there's a massive boom in production jobs, things like small town and ghetto revitalization will happen naturally and eliminate the need for stuff like this.
The only REAL use for this kind of thing in my opinion is to open up and privatize the massive amounts of farm and ranch land out west to farmers and ranchers. I mean serious, half the state is owned by the feds in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. Most of the Prime land with good water is fed land which forces farmers and ranchers to fight for leases with good water. I'd be open to something like that.
billionaires gotta get that money. This isn't for us. It's for foreign billionaires.
Enacting this sort of thinking gives the government unlimited power over your property. A developer is going to 'revitalize' a shopping center but needs an additional two acres. Property owners are forced to sell to the developer.
How about abolishing property zoning so that the urban 'landscape' can change as needed instead of being planned by city dimwits looking to squeeze every penny out of land?
You make some very excellent points and I agree with many of them. We really have screwed ourselves in many ways. I do still feel like New Urbanism type development is part of the solution. Sprawl is making us bankrupt as it’s massively subsidized and financially inefficient compared to traditional towns. But all it takes is a section 8 down the street and there goes the neighborhood- so everyone moves out and only the losers remain, and there goes the town itself. So no more subsidized housing at all. That should be gutted. Property taxes are a big part of it too - cities trying to tax their way out of debt or to pay for ‘dem programs’ drive people out too…. And then you get politicians who are bought and paid for by corrupt developers and lowlife democrat welfare residents and next thing you know the whole place turns into Detroit and all the people abandon the city