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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by anovikov on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:14AM (#17352539)
Cool! Why didn't i hear about this before?

Why there are no other such examples? At least, this approach guarantees that there will be no slums: if slums start to form, the guy who owns the town will start losing billions, quickly, so he will do everything to evict those people.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by CloudNetworking on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:34AM (#17366089)
That's not how you guarantee there'll be no slums though. You just guarantee you move the slums somewhere else, which is not really a solution for anyone.
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Re:Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US? by anovikov on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:55AM (#17461581)
Sorry for late answer, but why not? Slums are not a problem as such. They are only a problem when they are close to normal residential areas, because they decrease property values there. If slums are somewhere where normal people won't see them, i am fine with them.
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