> The middle and lower class is quickly outpriced of that liveable city or state experience. It would be better to spread our resources to more areas, instead o

> The middle and lower class is quickly outpriced of that liveable city or state experience. It would be better to spread our resources to more areas, instead of concentrating it to a few. We already know what wealth concentration, inequality looks like. That's not because livable places with amenities located within walking distance are expensive to build or maintain. It's because there aren't enough of them, primarily because in very large tracts of every metropolitan area they are illegal to build under current zoning ordinances. That's how you get cute prewar streetcar suburbs that are ludicrously unaffordable - the neighborhoods were cheap to build at the time and could be cheap to build today, the prices are all because people love living there and we made it illegal to build more. Postwar suburban sprawl is monstrously expensive to build and maintain. You need to build and maintain an incredible amount more infrastructure per person, and because the properties themselves are less livable and car-dependent, fewer people want to and can afford to live there, which makes them "cheaper." The answer is not to force people to live in car dependent sprawl. It's to build more walkable places so that the cost comes down.