Mastodawn

The city was humanity's greatest wager: that density creates opportunity, that proximity generates possibility, that strangers pressed together build something larger than themselves.

For most of history, that bet paid off. Then we systematically broke it.

https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-urban-condition-promise-crisis

#Urbanism #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #ZoningReform #PoliticalEconomy
#SocialHousing #CityPlanning #Housing #YIMBY #NIMBY #Gentrification
#Homelessness #Infrastructure #LandValueTax #UrbanPlanning #Fediverse

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Pepperberry

Now two permanent classes:

Class 1: owned before prices exploded. Wealth grew through timing, not effort.

Class 2: permanent renters, transferring rising income to Class 1, indefinitely, with no path to equity.

In strict economic terms: a rentier system.

The enforcement mechanism: zoning.

Across North American cities, the vast majority of residential land is zoned
exclusively for single-family housing. Not a neutral planning decision.

#PoliticalEconomy #LandValueTax #Urbanism