The Progressive Case for More Development
My job, educational training, and personal predisposition have me examining all angles of issues, probing for what makes sense and what will work. In my travels, I continue to come across something that I wanted to explore a bit today, which is progressive folks feeling ambivalent, against, or outright hostile towards new real estate development. I will not claim to know all there is to know on this subject, and for a short blog post I will invariably give short shrift to every perspective on the matter. Still, the following seem like reasonably sound statements to make, which together feel like a solid case for progressives to be supportive of more development. 1. I realize it's more than this and more complex than this, but at the core I feel like progressives care deeply about the inequity in our society, one manifestation of that being neighborhood-level things like quality of life, housing unaffordability, and residential segregation. 2. Neighborhoods, particularly in urban
