Nicolas Acton

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The middle class don’t require a lot of services, but they pay for services that are provided. When your middle class leaves and your poor get more concentrated, your service needs go up—the tax base is gone and you go into a vicious downward spiral. And you get what happened here, and in Detroit, and Newark, and Gary, Indiana.”
Nicolas Acton
He's... Not wrong. How do we overcome this? Continuing to supplement unsustainable construction can't be the answer.
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
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