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Urban renewal didn't work. Back to the city movement and gentrification is also not working because poverty still remains. Both schemes did not work and was supported heavily by the federal government. In the coming decade ahead, feds will push for expansion of suburban development again. This is what I'm hearing from think tanks. Also in the decades ahead cities clustered together will become regional belts linking to one another.
Especially the last sentence. Look at the push towards high speed rail. The government will put more money into completely high speed rail projects linking major cities in a metro area. Construction has started on high speed rail linking California cities. Amtrak will be upgraded in the DC to Boston area for quicker speeds as well. High speed rail could make commuting from Philly to New York viable, in essence making Philly a suburb of New York. That could be used to solve housing issues.
Gentrification just shifts poverty around urban areas yes, in part because it does not address disparities in education and other inequalities. But clearly it isn't working out to well except in core urban neighborhoodsa and for obvious reasons cannot be the solution for the city as a whole. Those workers at Walgreen's/Duane Reade, CVS, Post Office, cops, firemen, teachers, social workers, nurses have to live somewhere.
Especially the last sentence. Look at the push towards high speed rail. The government will put more money into completely high speed rail projects linking major cities in a metro area. Construction has started on high speed rail linking California cities. Amtrak will be upgraded in the DC to Boston area for quicker speeds as well. High speed rail could make commuting from Philly to New York viable, in essence making Philly a suburb of New York. That could be used to solve housing issues.
Gentrification just shifts poverty around urban areas yes, in part because it does not address disparities in education and other inequalities. But clearly it isn't working out to well except in core urban neighborhoodsa and for obvious reasons cannot be the solution for the city as a whole. Those workers at Walgreen's/Duane Reade, CVS, Post Office, cops, firemen, teachers, social workers, nurses have to live somewhere.
People are moving to Union and Essex county, NJ where there is already express train service or up north beyond White Plains for much cheaper rents vs the boroughs. So basically, their commute is 15-30 minutes longer than before. So what. That's life. It's not like they're going homeless as the liberals make you think they are and many people who have good jobs actually stay in their neighborhoods within gentrification as they climb the social ladder through the next generation. The lower east side/east village still houses many hispanics, and poor fresh off the boat Chinese cantons still live in Chinatown. And they always find a way. Many have lived 4-6 to a 2 bedroom apt for decades.
How ironic. Her filth sleaze of a husband, after he disgraced the oral office, planted his ass in Harlem which started gentrification - and now she wants to talk about affordable housing? What a sham. Too bad no one under 30 realizes this.
Continue to stay on the DNC plantation black NY'ers. Massa Hillary owns your vote, tragically.
I feel like I don't want the feds to touch housing again after the 1950's.
You have never lied
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