Globe editorial: Cities promise housing – and then make new rules that prevent it
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Politicians, most of whom are homeowners, have long failed to see the urgency in the country’s housing market
  • PxtlEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Allowing downtown to be surrounded by an ocean of suburban sprawl means that suburbanites get preferential access to nature. In hyper urbanized countries, the kids who live in skyscrapers can bicycle to the mountain wilderness. Suburbia creates an ocean of barrier to that.

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I live in a suburb with a ton of parks, if that counts.

      I do wonder why these parks are so expensive, though…