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If we thought it was worth forcing people to move the problem could be solved without creating a bunch of new ghost cities, there's already a LOT of undesirable
by majormajor 5y ago
If we thought it was worth forcing people to move the problem could be solved without creating a bunch of new ghost cities, there's already a LOT of undesirable cheap places.
But forced relocation is not something you're gonna get many people on board with.
- majormajor 5y agoHere's an example: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/can-infrastructure-spending-save-ogdensburg-new-york https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/can-infrastructure... "The housing stock is old, and much of it is dilapidated. (You can buy a single-family home for less than fifty thousand dollars.)" Force some highly paid remote workers to move there and get some more money circulating somewhere that needs it instead of these trendy places. Sure, you gotta trample all over what highly-paid people want, but no big deal, right? It's for the greater good? Not really any different from trampling over what poorer people currently living somewhere low-density want, if you drop a bunch of high-density development on them, right?