> Don’t force people into highly dense housing, let them pay for sprawl if they want it and can afford it. 'Letting them pay' for sprawl implies that it is alr

> Don’t force people into highly dense housing, let them pay for sprawl if they want it and can afford it. 'Letting them pay' for sprawl implies that it is already priced in, which it is not. Rather, it's often opposite: A few years back back Strong Towns did a case study of their Growth Ponzi scheme hypothesis on a town in Louisiana and found that under the current tax regime, higher density poorer neighborhoods were actually subsidizing lower density and richer sprawl areas: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...