NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.
What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?
When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.
But we can destroy multihundred dollar single family homes. You need to have a critical mass of high density population, then you fold the suburbs into the city itself, increase land property taxes steeply, zone for unlimited density contingent on guaranteed infrastructure, greatly limit car use, streamline eminent domain, and eventually people will either be priced out of their homes or, if they're very rich they'll either be eminent domained or annoyed that they can't use their cars anymore.
It can be done. The single family homes are all shoddily made piece of shit that won't last. They're barely wealth as it is and will be a liability in 15 years time. The land is what's valuable, the houses are a crappy consumer good made to the lowest standard the building code will allow full of glued fiberboard and cheap drywall. American houses themselves aren't wealth, they're consumables.