How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
"Blame Jane Jacobs," @yappelbaum.bsky.social says. Among other sins, she "cast the displacement of a dynamic working-class community of immigrant renters in the 1950s by a stable, gentrified population of professional-class homeowners as a triumph." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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