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When indoor spaces become dangerous clusters of contagion, it feels perverse that municipalities devote more acreage to parking than to parks.
During the 1990s, Cleveland’s house prices outpaced both the national average and San Francisco’s. How confident are you that you can predict the ways in which urban geography will shift over your tenancy?
The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
theatlantic.com
Small and struggling Midwestern towns competed fiercely for this new investment, offering expansive tax and infrastructure (especially water and sewage) incentives. This migration pointedly undermined the political and community alliances that had sustained the United Packinghouse Workers and eroded the ability of the union to organize across plants or secure master agreements.
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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