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Tracy Hadden Loh on June 18, 2018 at 5:06 pm
Well, I don't think that most environmentalists would accept that there is nothing else we can do about housing affordability in the urban core except sprawl out.

However, another environmental angle to affordability (that is connected to thought about the morality of growth) is the argument that households of all sizes can and should consume fewer square feet per person. So, while housing prices per square foot in Metro-accessible areas are rising, for example, it is still possible for most households to locate in these areas. The average US household consumes about twice as many square feet per capita (something like 400 sq. ft.) than the average global household (UN stats are more like 215 sq. ft. pp, I think).

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