from #KevinErdmann https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/a-conversation-about-cities
// a great piece from Kevin Erdmann. exclusive places are really boring, but we've so strangled the possibility of vibrant places that we compete to occupy the highest amenity mausoleums.
The problem of the last century of housing is that half the country is always below average, and we have frozen all of our neighborhoods in place in an attempt to get the lower half to live somewhere else. But the lower half still lives somewhere. So, now we have a lower half of the population, but not a lower half of housing stock that evolved to serve them.