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TransAction has bold goals, but it is a self-contradicting plan. In addition to BRT, it allocates up to $29 billion for over 1,000 new lane-miles of highways that will draw people away from transit.
Northern Virginia’s Transportation Authority Proposes a Region-Wide Rapid Transit Network
draft plan
In its 1947 brief to the Supreme Court in Shelley v. Kraemer, the U.S. government cited half a dozen studies, each of which demonstrated that "[c]olored people are forced to pay higher rents and housing costs by the semi-monopoly which segregation fosters." In 1954, the FHA estimated that African Americans were overcrowded at more than four times the rate of whites and were doubled up at three times the rate of whites because of the excessive rents they were forced to pay.
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
For the 7 million people of the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s every city and county for themselves. While there is a council of city governments called the Association of Bay Area Governments that was started in 1961, it’s not sufficiently powerful.
That means NIMBY-ists in every city try and shove the housing issue onto someone else.
That means it’s a race-to-the-bottom on business taxes.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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