The cracks are beginning to show
Housing activists demand more new-built housing to drive down overall costs, but modern 5-over-1 housing is poorly made and often placed in unsustainable locations that promote suburban city plans that make people reliant on cars for transport and big box grocery stores. These practices enable suburban sprawl which destroys our natural environment and contributes to the mass extinction events we’re living through.
Not every person can or should expect to own their own house. Historically, intergenerational houses have been handed down from parent to kid over centuries throughout the world. It limits people’s ability to move to different cities or leave ancestral houses, but that’s the more sustainable housing practice.
And then there’s groceries. Our mass food market which enables people to be able to buy strawberries in January and prime rib for every meal is simply unsustainable, both because we are consuming way too much and also because we’re reliant on global markets instead of local farmers.
Current prices are just the canary in the coal mine.
Housing activists demand more new-built housing to drive down overall costs, but modern 5-over-1 housing is poorly made and often placed in unsustainable locations that promote suburban city plans that make people reliant on cars for transport and big box grocery stores. These practices enable suburban sprawl which destroys our natural environment and contributes to the mass extinction events we’re living through.
Not every person can or should expect to own their own house. Historically, intergenerational houses have been handed down from parent to kid over centuries throughout the world. It limits people’s ability to move to different cities or leave ancestral houses, but that’s the more sustainable housing practice.
And then there’s groceries. Our mass food market which enables people to be able to buy strawberries in January and prime rib for every meal is simply unsustainable, both because we are consuming way too much and also because we’re reliant on global markets instead of local farmers.
Current prices are just the canary in the coal mine.