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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

Not Just Bikes explains, using Urban3's property-tax analysis, why car-dependent suburbs generate less tax revenue than they cost to maintain, so dense urban cores effectively subsidize them. It is part of a Strong Towns series.

The go-to link in urban planning threads for the claim that suburban infrastructure costs more per resident than it pays back.

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