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Originally Posted by accord1999
If there is a housing crisis about lower income families not being able to afford homes that don't look like commie blocks, then the immediate focus should on building homes that look like this rather wasting time on the slow and expensive process of densification in areas where land is worth several million dollars or more per acre.
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So take low income people, and put them in locations where they absolutely have to own a car to survive, rather than denser, well serviced areas where they can walk, use transit etc.
Car commuting is a massive financial drag, and makes more sense for the affluent who can afford it as part of their choice to own a single family house with a yard, that is further out from the denser areas of the city.
Putting low income people on the edges of the city just stresses them further financially, or takes people more prone to working shift work or multiple jobs and has them eat several hours a day on transit, with knock on effects to their kids that already have less of their parents time to support their development.