https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-the-luster-is-fading-on-o...
Health care. Living wage. Alternative transport. Small affordable homes.
Please stop trying to build Disneyland and just focus on reducing regulation and corruption happen and letting innovation happen in existing cities.
And that's across quite a lot of cities in the US and Canada.
Most families who can afford to are willing to pay a huge premium in order to not share walls with a neighbour, even if it's only a few feet of grass and adds a longer commute.
Whereas most of the opposing sentiments I can only find as talk by random accounts online... and not in actual behaviour.
Democracies are, by definition, ruling by the median intelligence of the group, thus cherry picking a smaller set of the population, you can advance more complex ideas and solutions - hence efforts such as in OP's article.
This ofcourse goes against the natural inclination of rich people. But it keeps society from splintering into the haves and have nots.
I don't think that's true at all. If there are no poor people nearby, you can't have any servants.
This is not true everywhere.
Where it is true, it is because supply has dried up as the general run of the population decides it has better options, not because demand is down.
But this time, we'll get it right!
Everyone who tries to improve things should be shut down.