News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over. Parent comment

Re:The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over by kasey_junk on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @10:17AM (#14255833)
> If the pull of the cities is good enough wouldn't people just naturally leave the burbs anyway? And if the suburb doesn't have many people living in it, why would we need to mitigate those problems? Why not just let the houses crumble and stand as decaying ruins?

That is assuming the people there have the resources to move. We'd mitigate them to provide opportunity for that choice. Those crumbling houses and decaying ruins will be the home to the members of our society least able to help themselves.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over by naravara on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:00PM (#14257692)
>That is assuming the people there have the resources to move. We'd mitigate them to provide opportunity for that choice. Those crumbling houses and decaying ruins will be the home to the members of our society least able to help themselves.

That solution isn't in building up the burbs though. It would be in making it easier to move to and live in places that aren't dying.

In any developing country there is a constant pull of rural to urban migration. The big stumbling block is having a place to live and a job for when you get to the city, not how fancy your village was.

[ Parent | on HN ]