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Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build
The destructive nature of urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build anything at scale ever again.
Four stations on a mere six-mile VTA-led BART extension through mostly suburban San Jose will cost as much as $12 billion, more than double the annual war budget of Iran. The latter leads to cities like Half Moon Bay, California, dictating and downsize housing for low income farm workers who recently suffered a mass shooting, because the concerns of neighbors supersede the welfare of the public at large. We live in a fantasy world where all government projects and development done efficiently come at the material cost of communities, rather than the truth which is that urban renewal was meant to destroy, not improve neighborhoods.
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