> Those homes should have been bought out long ago. Careful, you're talking about my home. Our neighborhood has long been served well by being adjacent to the

> Those homes should have been bought out long ago. Careful, you're talking about my home. Our neighborhood has long been served well by being adjacent to the places that provide employment. In fact - before suburbia was subsidized [0] that's how the majority of America lived. The GI Bill [1], with zero-down payment home loan provisions and redlining that drained away investment in urban neighborhoods of color[2] created the conditions for white flight into places defined by car infrastructure. We long thought we'd be able to keep gas cheap, but those days are over. Now we frack and destroy groundwater in search of sweet crude. Now we build oil pipes from those fracking fields that threaten freshwater. There's a difference between liking cars and being forced to use one to live. We need to stop creating those places. 0. http://grist.org/cities/starving-the-cities-to-feed-the-suburbs/ http://grist.org/cities/starving-the-cities-to-feed-the-subu... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining