Proponents of Population Density
- Population growth in the United States should be channeled as much as possible into the footprint of existing cities.
- Surrounding cities should be "greenbelts," suburban growth should be rejected as unsustainable "sprawl," and human settlement in areas defined as the "urban-wildland interface" should be discouraged and, where possible, reversed.
Causes and Effects
- Chief among these economic imperatives is to render housing barely affordable
- Reducing the supply of housing while increasing the U.S. population through loose immigration policies creates shortages, which then drive up prices
- Perpetually inflating the value of real estate creates new asset collateral
- Enables the ongoing trade deficit, as foreign investors repatriate dollars by buying expensive American real estate
- The interests of public-sector unions and public utilities are another powerful driver obscured by density policies
Planned obsolescence is the New Normal
- The density agenda is the product of intersecting benefits that attract a powerful coalition of special interests
- In almost every sector of the economy, monopolistic corporate special interests have navigated a profitable path that furthers the shared agenda
- Environmentalist-inspired regulations make it almost impossible to get building permits, public entities collect higher fees, and favored developers build homes they can sell for more money and more profit
- When environmentalists litigate to stop the construction of a new reservoir, public agencies retain the funds for more internally remunerative uses, and the possibility of new home construction is diminished
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/26/the-dehumanizing-tyranny-of-densification/
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