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The suburbs are boring, single use, car oriented, low density, and segregated. How can we solve these problems and turn them from a liability to an asset. Or is it not possible at all?

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Resources on this topic:

https://www.mcall.com/2021/05/26/bill-white-discoveries-from-returning-to-my-childhood-home-in-the-suburban-experiment-of-levittown/

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/20/7-rules-for-rehabilitating-suburbia-md2020

https://www.bdcnetwork.com/california-strip-mall-goes-multifamily-residential

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125930181/affordable-housing-shortage-california-commercial-real-estate-zoning-laws

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/trend-1-separate-and-unequal-neighborhoods-are-sustaining-racial-and-economic-injustice-in-the-us/

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/homeownership-racial-segregation-and-policies-for-racial-wealth-equity/

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Written by Dave Amos and Hannah Woolsey
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