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hunter

(38,264 posts)
26. We could allow certain kinds of commercial use.
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 12:22 PM
Feb 2012

A family without a car doesn't need a garage.

A garage could be turned into a grocery store and a transportation stop for other neighborhood families who don't have cars. That business would support the family living in the house.

Or else the population density of the neighborhood increases with multi-generational housing -- grandma and grandpa, kids and their spouses, grandkids, all sharing one house and grandpa's old car, which is parked in the driveway because somebody's cousins are living in the garage.

That's probably the inevitable future of the suburbs as the U.S. middle class evaporates.

Or else these suburbs will be abandoned entirely and people will move away to places where it's easier to survive with less money, as somebody's cousins, living in a converted garage in another suburb, or a tiny apartment in a city with good public transportation services and, most importantly, jobs.

The fear of "falling property values" will increase the rate of destruction in some suburbs as empty houses are left to decay because the bankers and neighbors won't allow their conversion to viable housing adapted to a world with fewer automobiles and work that pays poorly.



stunning graph [View all] kpete Feb 2012 OP
now now-- mustn't let basic humanity interfere with bankster profits you know.... mike_c Feb 2012 #1
One would think this plus approx. 50% of Americans in or near poverty RKP5637 Feb 2012 #4
It's called mass hypnosis. Zalatix Feb 2012 #6
It really really is ... I never cease to be amazed, it's scary. RKP5637 Feb 2012 #10
Washington doesn't get it. woo me with science Feb 2012 #14
Yep, it's literally out of sight, out of mind for Washington. I find it so RKP5637 Feb 2012 #15
unfortunately, the majority of americans... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2012 #19
People are afraid of poverty. They think it might be contagious. Quantess Feb 2012 #17
I think actually there's a lot to that, much the same as some don't RKP5637 Feb 2012 #18
more great posters from the same site handmade34 Feb 2012 #20
Incredible graphs - they tell so much at just a glance, so easy to understand! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2012 #21
Can't create a moral hazard. Whatever the fuck that is. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2012 #2
HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Feb 2012 #3
K&R redqueen Feb 2012 #5
the homeless rate is higher than that Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #7
Think how many cars are sitting empty Kellerfeller Feb 2012 #8
Thank you...exactly skepticscott Feb 2012 #23
I am one paycheck away from being homeless lunatica Feb 2012 #9
The absurdity of Capitalism. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #11
Like dragons sitting atop a pile of treasure they cannot use but tblue37 Feb 2012 #22
k+r limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #12
K&R woo me with science Feb 2012 #13
One big problem--Need a car to get to them ErikJ Feb 2012 #16
that is the sad truth of it. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #24
We could allow certain kinds of commercial use. hunter Feb 2012 #26
Well put. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #28
i must need more coffee, that math isn't making any sense n/t NMDemDist2 Feb 2012 #25
Keyword = "available" SoCalDem Feb 2012 #27
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