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
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