Originally Posted by
Rocket
The thing is [as far as I can tell], the people who ride public transit are not the same people as "build", nor pay market rates for housing that allow others to build / rebuild.
They are the economic class that needs constant financial support.
Rebuilding a city and providing busing are opposites, not synergies. [This wasn't the case before cars became common, but certainly since 1950]
Even the low income housing you keep hearing about [<50% AMI etc] only exists because we taxpayers are subsidizing the projects.
But if we have to subsidize their rent, and their utilities, and their phones, and their police, Fire etc [because they don't pay much if anything in taxes], and their healthcare, and their food [bridge card], and their transportation, then what's the point? Why bother building anything?
We need to get people to move into Detroit that build things, or at least fix things up and maintain them, and who start businesses, and have cars.