Maybe it happened in Detroit because those who wouldn’t buy into it had somewhere to run. And the same kind of crew is counting on it happening elsewhere and leaving nowhere to run.

Leaving nowhere to run is exactly the policy of the ‘urban planners’ who are forcing densification on the residents of growing cities. New residents are limited to multistory boxes full of ticky-tacky, all looking just the same. If asked, most would like to live in single-family houses with a bit of yard, but they’re never asked, and the supply of SF is kept rigorously limited – therefore expensive.

Those boxes are built under policies of extorting profits from developers to transfer the funds as unearned subsidies to rents for folks whose economic opportunities are limited, but who can be counted on to vote Democratic in perpetuity from their rabbit hutches. There’s a red one, and a blue one, and a green one and a yellow one, and they’re all made of ticky-tacky….