The socialist view you present of city planning is appropriate for a socialist country not Fort Lauderdale.
Your analogy of a city being like a ship is false as it applies to most cities. Cities are not isolated ships bobbing in abyss. . Until developers recently began bulldozing, people worked in the heart of downtown and lived elsewhere. The inner-city (which is about 1/2 a square mile)was exclusively about business not housing. If you can't afford to live in the heart of the city you will survive quite nicely within minutes of Downtown. No Captain is needed to ensure your survival. . There are an abundance of single family homes and apartments available costing less than 1/2 the price of those listed in the article! If a homeowner/buyer doesn't want to pay the UP-fee of living in the heart of the posh little city he has the option of transporting himself to work. Why is this such a novel concept? Next we will have the crying poor mouth for transportaion (50 cents) as the next great call to Fort Lauderdale Socialism. Certainly Europeans have demonstrated that walking and biking to work is not only FREE but beneficial to the heart and waistline. I say enough of government meddling and price-fixing. The weather is perfect year-round so why not walk 4 blocks and stop whining! Mayor Naugle, should turn this issue into one of integration. The area within walking distance of Downtown Fort Lauderdale with loads of affordable housing is currently inhabited by very few Caucasions. Why should the City of Ft.L step in and mandate pricing because a "family" chooses not to integrate or commute 5 minutes?
There is a thing called a return key.
It makes paragraphs which allow for easier reading when changing thoughts.
Look around your keyboard and you will find it.
You hit the nail on the head! There is an abundance of affordable housing in both inner city as well as in outlying cities in Broward County if people don't mind living in mixed race or historically black neighborhoods. So Florida has seen a massive influx of immigration whereby those coming from from poor carribean and South American nations have been able to find housing. Yet you won't hear the Ft Lauderdale "Lenin" Sentinel discuss it or draw comparisons. In fact, the paper's editorial writer who's been in the front with his criticism of Mayor Naugle, Michael Mayo, is a notorious leftist who was honored by and received a plaque from CAIR in 2004.