New and Old #167
Friday roundup and commentary
How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything, The Discourse Lounge, Darrell Owens, May 17, 2024
This is a really interesting piece positing that a lot of NIMBYism and the general inability to build stuff quickly goes back to the failure of urban renewal. While he notes its particular impact on African Americans, Owens also notes that nobody really looks kindly on…