Ghost Towns In Sprawl Land

Presidential Candidates Don't Want To Talk About The Slow Death Of American Cities

By Bruce Fisher

The truest true fact of American politics is that no candidate running this year is going to upset or even challenge the suburban sprawl industry. Sprawl is the endless increase in housing supply, the endless outward redistribution of population from cities and older suburbs, the endless federal subsidy for roads, and the endless chatter about "good schools" that is just a code for "schools without poor, visible minorities" that dominates American political life.