>since real estate cartels typically dominate urban real estate
Perhaps had all the resources of government been focused on fixing this problem instead of confining black and brown people to and divesting from the inner cities, we might have more affordable, walkable, dense, valuable, resource-efficient, revenue-positive neighborhoods today.
The subsidization of cars and suburbs drives people away from public community spaces and dense development.
Just look at what might have been had San Francisco not risen up against the suburbification of the 1950s: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2618/3897327276_33754ebfce_o.j...
"Central Parking District"
>since real estate cartels typically dominate urban real estate
Perhaps had all the resources of government been focused on fixing this problem instead of confining black and brown people to and divesting from the inner cities, we might have more affordable, walkable, dense, valuable, resource-efficient, revenue-positive neighborhoods today.