[thomas_howland]

Single family homes are historically how populations insulate themselves from the consequences of the policies the NYT advocates. On a macro scale, they're a defensive architecture. They make your neighborhood expensive enough that the population is (by selection) wealthy enough to ensure sufficiently low crime rates and sufficiently Good Schools, with enough geographic buffer to survive natural population movements.

[astrange]

Single family suburbia was partly created to spread out the population in case of nuclear attacks, but mostly so you wouldn’t have to see any black people.

[prklmn]

You should touch up on your history.