> Due to how geography works, new suburbs are further from city centers and inherently less desirable. We have developed most of the geographically appealing regions of the US.
"We have turned all of the areas within 15 miles of the existing urban development into suburbs, while banning nearly all new urban development, and banning nearly all urbanization of existing suburbs. We've run out of cities to build suburbs around and this seems like a natural limit where a Mad Max style fight for a limited suburban housing stock is our inevitable outcome. This is Basic Geography 101."
That Mad Max style fight has already been won by geriatric white men (PostWar Boys) who paid off their houses 20 years ago, who are now nominal multimillionaires, and whose preferences appear to largely control national, state, and local political outcomes.
"We have turned all of the areas within 15 miles of the existing urban development into suburbs, while banning nearly all new urban development, and banning nearly all urbanization of existing suburbs. We've run out of cities to build suburbs around and this seems like a natural limit where a Mad Max style fight for a limited suburban housing stock is our inevitable outcome. This is Basic Geography 101."
That Mad Max style fight has already been won by geriatric white men (PostWar Boys) who paid off their houses 20 years ago, who are now nominal multimillionaires, and whose preferences appear to largely control national, state, and local political outcomes.