That's exactly what the elites want to strip away from us - that feeling of safety and comfort.
This article is at it's core, propaganda.
The elites want us all to live in tiny apartments, and accept a far lower standard of living. Our quality of life and lifestyle is a barrier to their agenda.
That’s what I thought. Propaganda.
And you hit on why.
“The elites want us all to live in tiny apartments”
This completely true.
It is true that "the elites" are hostile to urban sprawl and automobile-centric planning, and that they favor much denser patterns of urban life. But it is also true that very large cities have passed the point of diminishing returns on far-flung suburbs and brutal commutes. In these areas, the market is increasingly driving gentrification and densification even without the heavy hand of liberal social engineers. The challenge is the recovery, restoration or retrofitting of humanely scaled urban neighborhoods in places that have long been automobile dominated, but in which residents are now rebelling against spending too many of their non-work, waking hours behind the wheel.
The reasonably close-in automobile suburb with a moderate commute is a fine way to live, until it is overtaken by scale. Looking forward, the biggest planning challenge probably falls to the mid-size cities that have not yet hit the commuting wall, and in which road construction still seems like a viable option. These cities need to look around them, and at the colossal transportation mess in places like New York, Philly, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, and anywhere in California. The question is how to avoid a similar fate over the next 50 years, as the U.S. population doubles again and a couple of dozen of today's "mid-majors" come to rival today's Chicago or Atlanta in size.
You are exactly right... they don’t want a rental market of any kind that isn’t 100% run by the government. Cities don’t want rich people who have managed to shelter their money from the greedy hands of local government filling up the cities... they want young dumb tax payers filling the citi