This article repeats all the pro-building delusions we've come to know and loathe.
1) Higher density is great except: overuse of sewage and water in existing infrastructure; more traffic (let's pretend more people will ride bikes), more run-off or rainwater worsening urban and suburban flooding, lastly killing trees in these areas.
This article repeats all the pro-building delusions we've come to know and loathe.
1) Higher density is great except: overuse of sewage and water in existing infrastructure; more traffic (let's pretend more people will ride bikes), more run-off or rainwater worsening urban and suburban flooding, lastly killing trees in these areas.
2) We have already seen that putting people who can't afford it into houses usually ends in disaster for both the borrower and lender. It is also not a solution for wealth or income inequality. Buying or renting overpriced houses does not make poor or low/mod families better off.
3) These shibboleths about redlining and race are simply crude attempts to force policy outcomes by invoking these "anti-racist dogwhistles". More whites than blacks lived in red-lined areas in the 30s, 40s, and 50s (there are far more whites than blacks in the US, no surprise). Redlining ended 50 years ago. Now we've had lenders chasing after "formerly marginalized" populations for the past 40 years with HUD, and the Feds (in all political parties) nipping at their heels. Throwing mortgage money at problems is about as successful as throwing student loans at college kids -- it is a disaster with minimal improvements in quality or social changes. We are still highly segregated and stratified by class and income.
This article repeats all the pro-building delusions we've come to know and loathe.
1) Higher density is great except: overuse of sewage and water in existing infrastructure; more traffic (let's pretend more people will ride bikes), more run-off or rainwater worsening urban and suburban flooding, lastly killing trees in these areas.
2) We have already seen that putting people who can't afford it into houses usually ends in disaster for both the borrower and lender. It is also not a solution for wealth or income inequality. Buying or renting overpriced houses does not make poor or low/mod families better off.
3) These shibboleths about redlining and race are simply crude attempts to force policy outcomes by invoking these "anti-racist dogwhistles". More whites than blacks lived in red-lined areas in the 30s, 40s, and 50s (there are far more whites than blacks in the US, no surprise). Redlining ended 50 years ago. Now we've had lenders chasing after "formerly marginalized" populations for the past 40 years with HUD, and the Feds (in all political parties) nipping at their heels. Throwing mortgage money at problems is about as successful as throwing student loans at college kids -- it is a disaster with minimal improvements in quality or social changes. We are still highly segregated and stratified by class and income.
Perhaps put more thought into this.