How Suburban Sprawl Weighs On The U.S. Economy

One of the reasons the Democrats lost in the recent elections, whether at the federal or state level, is this. A lot of people like what is currently in place, especially the immigrants, many of whom, along their way to America, dreamed of living in a single family home and owning a car to go everywhere. I hope the Democrats and their friends on the left don't push this idea too much because it will hurt them badly.

People waste their money on car payments, gas, insurance, and parking. Better to live in an apartment and take the subway. Europeans and Asians have the right idea.

Great video!

Suburban living is better because its peaceful and I can sleep better having peace and quiet , instead of mexicans and blacks blasting their music in City dwelling people in apartments

All I hear is City dwellers are big mad living in compact rat and roach filled areas

People need to get a job and stop relying on government supplement money so you people can get a house with space and peace and quiet

Just tax land. That’s it. Allow mixed use, walkable neighborhoods, tax (wealthy, but really all) suburbs HEAVILY as they are subsidized by taxes for their infrastructure, and give citizens other methods of transportation like bike paths, trains, trams, buses, and high speed rail

REALLY ? So the Monster Burden of a trillion dysfunctional, government (so-called) works who's PAY and PENSIONS come off the top are not the problem ? This video is a scam.

BUT THEY ALSO REDUCED HOUSING PRICES.

SO WHAT, YOU MEAN THEY'RE AFFORDABLE NOW? THAT'S THE BLOODY POINT

I, as a GER who had lived in the US some decades ago, strongly believes the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 has started to haunt US Municipalities and States many years ago. The once known "American Dream" of owning a single-family home in Suburbia is about to turn into a nightmare. In my whole life, I have never owned a car (had driven a company-owned Audi for 15 years or so). Since then I have successfully and enjoyably been relying on public transit, be it short or long distanced. Today, I neither need nor miss a car...... We don't have that of a strict zoning here - having small and bigger grocery stores or bakeries and cafés within walking distance to one's home makes life without car liveable.

You guys should have called this phase two of forcing people into giant city’s that are liberal dominated.

In order to prevent homebuyers from paying for bad development, I think it would be better to develop new cities with social indirect capital as a priority.

People have been doing this for generations. Remember the baby boom? That was when surburban living began to take off, mainly for family size- hard to have a family of 5 in a 2 bedroom apartment.

White flight helps a lot of cities around me. You want toquickly shift the population, bring in many black families, whites suddenly move out. The question is why...

Cities are different municipalities than cities. Cities don't pay for suburbs. Suburbs have commercial areas of it's own for support. Property taxes mainly go to schools. A very little goes to the county.

The problem with this is that people are looking into the suburb from the outside telling the suburban communities what they should do and what they should want, and really the suburban towns are working on doing what they want in their own town.

I live in a major east coast city. All the basic necessities of life are available within about two blocks. There is a huge park about a mile away. And it's also close to a public transit link, as well as bus lines. It's the ideal location--and I don't need a car.

So in nutshell, it is just that America and its people got poorer and cannot sustain such kind of big cities anymore.

Suburban Houston has maxxed out suburban sprawl. It should win an award for the most anti efficient city ever built

Air, noise, andnoften water pollution in cities is terrible. Plus- where to do things like grow your food or lets your dogs run without having to cram them in with other dogs? There are a lot of lifestyle issues that mean people dont like to live in cities.

How about thinking about plants and animals for once? May the world treat you and land developers the way you treat animals.

Cities are obsolete.

if you want to live in a suburb, in a single family home... then you should be able to! just don't ask the government to pay for it. suburbs are welfare queens.

Cities have to stop funding suburban sprawl. Make sure your elected city officials aren't corrupt and funneling city tax wealth to suburban sprawl.

Another example of racism in economics and project funding.

just tax land lol

Yeah, because the cities have become too expensive to live in. Of course everyone's going to the burbs and exurbs.

I really became aware of this phenomenon when I left college after graduation. First I lived on campus, and never had to leave unless I was visiting my girlfriend. Then we moved in together and we still had an apartment on a bus route that led to campus. I never really had to drive until I graduated and needed to work. Now I can’t unsee how impractical it is to have to drive everywhere.

It feels like America is an urbanised nation in denial, building its suburbs for as close an approximation of rural life as it can within a metro area

ah yes. i used to live in the US. beautiful country, but the suburb is one thing i definitely dont miss about it. 1 mile to the nearest starbucks, 1 hour wait for the next bus. no thanks.

I bet it’s why there is a lot of homeless too, if you don’t have a car or don’t like driving you are screwed

I like how this is a video about American suburbs, yet they used an Australian suburb in the thumbnail

The one thing that gets missed, and that I wish more people talked about, is how having land use laws which extremely limit commercial use end up making it nearly impossible for so many people to start a business. It just leads to chains being the only ones in an area and it's horrible for us as a society

The question is, why did the FHA make their rules to intentionally spread ot americans and create more car centric development? Simple. Cold war mentality. The more spread out your population and major industry, the more likely you can survive the nuclear apocalypse and rule over the ashes. The questions should have been from the start and needs to be seriously considered now, whether that likelihood is worth the atomization of society, economic burden on sprawling infrastructure, and destruction of agriculture and ecology.

the elitists rallying against the burbs are the same psychoes that have 35 acre estates like zuck bucks and oprah

But we just don't like living close to other people. Most of us just feel happier when we have more space to ourselves. I'm going to make choices based on what feels good to me, not on what works best for everyone collectively.

There is an alternative to the suburbs that is MUCH better. Building a home out in the country. There are many many many areas in the United States where you can buy a few acres and build a house on it. And there will be plenty of space on the acreage for outbuildings, a driveway, a guesthouse, a shop, etc. You won't be cramped for space and it's typically less expensive for everything combined on 5-10 acres than just a house and a driveway and a small shed on 2/3 of an acre in the suburbs. Much better overall value to just buy land and develop it yourself, out away from other people.

if cities werent so packed, loud, filled with crazies, and expensive people wouldnt move out as fast.

Citing ASCE is super frustrating, they have every reason in the book to advocate for more infrastructure spending- their jobs depend on it

Yes! More mainstream media needs to let people know how suburbia is bankrupting our communities!

I don't know why people want to live this way. It's definitely a mistake. They're terribly inconvenient.

Commercial zone is good.
But NIMBY .

Is that why the United States is the most powerful country in the world? Look at Europe they ride their cute bikes and with their tampon bags and their economies haven’t grown since 2008

Too one sided

I think it's fine to revolve around a school, but I get worried if an Asian male is preferred over an Asian female.

Some Asian males are like... So unreachable and clean.

One got a 4.25 GPA in something impractical.

"Okay, bat like it happened."