Kansas City Must Demolish The 'Density Delusion' Or Risk Pricing Out Most Residents

Important perspective to consider as real estate speculator scumbags want the loop to transform into a Midwestern Manhattan NYC at the expense of the rest of the city.

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VOX: Is it time for American cities to stop growing?

Deets:

For years, urban “renewal” meant wooing young professionals. Even they can’t afford to live in cities anymore. The public has long been aware of the negative effects that accompany gentrification, often posed to residents as urban renewal: A certain type of individual of a certain financial standing, with a certain educational pedigree and cultural bent, moves into an economically depressed part of town; prices rise, culture shifts, and displacement occurs, typically along racial and economic lines.

The notion of unlimited growth, which promised to renew urban centers depleted by a generation of flight to the suburbs, has migrated from big cities such as Washington, New York, and Los Angeles to smaller cities such as Nashville, Tennessee and Kansas City, Missouri.

Twenty years into this grand experiment, residents are bucking against what all this growth has wrought: high rents, displacement, and a gutting of the very character of their cities. In some US cities, the squeeze has begun to hit the very people who helped spur this urban development in the first place, the very people that city after city are working so hard to attract.

To wit . . .

TRANSLATION: MIDDLE-CLASS WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOW GETTING PRICED OUT OF KANSAS CITY!!!

On the bright side, locals tend to be more understanding and take action when problem impact people who look like them and that's why we are finally seeing just a bit of corporate welfare push back in KC proper.

Developing . . .