Let's not forget that in many cities, we already had perfectly fine housing; but the houses, apartments and shops were torn down to build roads, which ended up driving communities apart. Car and oil companies drive policy, not people.
What the previous people said is completely true; but I think we're missing the fact that instead of having bustling communities, the capitalist system we live in prioritizes profits, and if that means driving people apart, tearing down their communities and creating an asphalt wasteland, then it will be done.
Both of the following comparisons are in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
And here are 2 articles about this issue, though both of these are from the US:
“Our categorical imperative is action to clear the slums,” Moses said in a 1959 speech. “We can’t let minorities dictate that this century-old chore will be put off another generation or finally abandoned.” Moses, who was also the chairman of the New York City Slum Clearance Committee, said that the highway construction must “go right through cities and not around them.” Two of the city’s main arteries he created, the Cross-Bronx and Brooklyn-Queens Expressways, did just that, cutting through the heart of the Bronx and Red Hook neighborhoods.
– How Interstate Highways Gutted Communities—and Reinforced Segregation from History.
The Smart Growth study estimates that the nation’s interstates displaced 475,000 households and over a million people in less than two decades. In D.C. alone, the building of Interstates 395 and 695 consumed more than 400 acres and displaced 23,500 people, most of them African Americans. It resulted in 1,400 housing units being destroyed, wiping out $483,000 in what would be average home equity if those homes existed today. The city lost the ability to tax approximately $1.4 billion in home value, costing it at least $7.6 million in property taxes per year.
– The Roads That Tear Communities Apart from Governing.
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