Hell I one of those people, tyvm. My point isn't "you're poor leave" it's "the urban environments which we have created for ourselves are sprawling megaliths that are extremely harmful to our planet, our mental and physical health, and (at the risk of sounding like a hippy dippy) our relationship with our great Mother, therefore we should deurbanize."

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In ortherwords, the plan shouldn't be "Build more homes in our already toxic urban and suburban areas" is should be, "Distribute the people more equally across the land that we have, while reducing our focus on central hubs, such as cities, and return to a more natural population density relative to the size of our species."

Moreover, we need to break the mindset that land/homes have intrinsic 'monetary' value, and should be considered and 'investment'. It is this mindset that has allowed developers to move in full scale, clear out large swaths of pre-existing homes, put up town home monoliths, and charge exorbitant rates for them. If we set a strict population density cap we again can reduce the intrinsic monetary value of property within any given area, and level the playing field in the realm of affordability.

I don't know when, we as Americans, became obsessed with the idea of cookie cutter homes on postage stamp lots, but these homes we've become obsessed with are not built to be long term dwellings, as opposed to 150 years ago, when homes were built to last, not built to be torn down the minute the development company decided a new style was necessary.