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by rainsford
44 days ago
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> So, not a supply problem. What do you mean it's not a supply problem? Suburbs and the housing within them aren't naturally occurring features with limited supply. They're not oil deposits. You can just build more of them. Same thing with places like NYC or Paris or London. The point isn't that they need more development, it's that other places need more development so people who want the NYC experience in the US don't have exactly one city to choose from. You don't make NYC cheaper with more building in NYC, you make NYC cheaper by making more NYC like cities. |
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The problem with a lot of the US is that the city designs are atrocious - if you can call them designed at all. Americans don't really understand how to create public transportation systems and to urbanize suburban areas. Instead of looking at Europe and copying, we bicker and argue and support this broken idea of local government. Btw, that's not a right or left thing - community groups are touted as a great thing to fight against gentrification, or over development in blue states, and defenders of freedom in red ones. The issue is the multi faceted bickering making it impossible to progress - why don't NJ and LA suburbs not have the best public transportation in the country or world? They easily could. It's just bad government and a lack of centralized planning at the federal level.