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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The issue is that a lot of housing in these areas have turned into offices, stores, and other business-use buildings. As you remove livable areas, you create scarcity, which raises the prices, etc.
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They also got turned into other things because people and factories left first, though sometimes like in Detroit they became abandoned. Prior to rail transit and then the car, people were forced to live near where they work. Afterwards, they had options.
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That’s also why a lot of these suburban areas people were forced out to do their best to mimic a tiny city with everything people need at arms length.
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Which is closer to what most people wanted, private space of their own (or at least not cripplingly expensive housing) yet the car still offering convenient enough trips to amenities and jobs. Few people were forced, so much as willing left and never looked back.