>To think with all that money we could build better infrastructure and denser housing. Denser housing isn't built because our local land use policymaking parad

>To think with all that money we could build better infrastructure and denser housing. Denser housing isn't built because our local land use policymaking paradigms give the power to block it to the people who don't want it, not because of a lack of federal subsidies. If anything, the infrastructure built with that money would be road infrastructure to support further sprawl.