It is sad and strange to see a country with so much land area and such low population density moving in the direction of ever greater congestion -- and now in t

It is sad and strange to see a country with so much land area and such low population density moving in the direction of ever greater congestion -- and now in the name of the revolution. ...while upper-middle-class, single-family-home neighborhoods have had the privilege of remaining the same. Although it is not the author's avowed view, they do seem to be operating from a frame where we have to put people's private property to public use in the name of social progress. For example, the way they use the word "privilege" here. Not selling one's home or, along with one's neighbours, not changing a neighbourhood's zoning is not a privilege, it's a pretty ordinary exercise of one's autonomy.