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Most people would probably like to live in a giant mansion on a country estate, but they can’t afford to. If the price of a single family house in a sprawling s
by amanaplanacanal 4y ago
Most people would probably like to live in a giant mansion on a country estate, but they can’t afford to. If the price of a single family house in a sprawling suburb doesn’t include the actual cost of the infrastructure to serve that home, then really they can’t afford to live there, either. Cities all over the US are running into this problem.
- bequanna 4y ago> If the price of a single family house in a sprawling suburb doesn’t include the actual cost of the infrastructure to serve that home, then really they can’t afford to live there, either. Sorry, but what is your point here? This is the same recycled “strongtowns” argument that they repeat endlessly. Worst case, property taxes increase to help with local infrastructure.
- spaethnl 4y agoWho is "they"? You dismiss the "strongtowns" argument as if there is some consensus that it has been debunked, but I don't think there is such a consensus, so you'd need to support that claim. Further, the worst case is not that property taxes increase, it is that other people, usually less fortunate, end up subsidizing them further through federal, state, and county funds, rather than their own local taxes.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoWhat the lie-o-meter has to say about your assertion really depends a lot on the average income and level of density in the suburb in question. The rich inner suburbs full of busybody jerks are unfortunately rich enough to almost certainly be self sustaining if they want to be. No starving that beast.