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In the case of suburbs it's the opposite. They are the result of unsustainable subsidies granted by a electoral majority to benefit themselves.


What subsidies are you imagining and how is it unsustainable?


Federal Highway subsidies. Federal Mortgage & insurance rules. Tax structures. Federal building guidelines for FHA / HUD programs. Destroying dense mixed use black neighborhoods to build highway interchanges. Federally funded highways and interstates that enable suburban living to be convenient.

The built environment of the United States was a choice. "Forced" through top down "market" incentives.

Not to mention oil subsidies etc

From American Conservative: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/we-have-always-...

https://marketurbanism.com/2017/09/05/subsidizing-suburbia-a...




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