> Around the country, cities and states that have struggled to tame rising housing costs are now trying to wrest control from neighborhood activists like Ms. Kirsch. Their logic is that too much of the power over whether new housing and infrastructure projects get built is left to a relatively small band of activists who pack late-night city meetings to tell their city councils that whatever is being proposed is “out of character” and should be built somewhere else — not in their backyard.
> That turnabout is what’s so baffling to activists like Ms. Kirsch. In the late 1970s, when she moved to Marin County, California was in the vanguard of an ideological backlash that created modern environmentalism and rejected the assumption that a growing economy and more people were always good — a cause that was championed by state and national politicians and celebrated everywhere from songs to magazine covers.
> For University of Oxford political scientist Ben Ansell, who has researched the relationship between house prices and politics, Trump’s return to the White House for a second stint was not a surprise.
> “The rise of populism in the States, in Britain and in Europe, I think, is predictable by house prices, whether it’s caused by it is a separate question,” Ansell told the Big Issue. “In general, the support for Donald Trump, the support for Brexit, is generally higher in places where property prices stagnated and it’s generally lower in places that have had booming property prices – your big, cosmopolitan cities.
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I think what people on this forum should understand is that the post-cold war global order, one that has seen rapid rises in quality of life for the global median person, is a byproduct of American investment in foreign countries and American military, economic, and cultural hegemony.
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> Around the country, cities and states that have struggled to tame rising housing costs are now trying to wrest control from neighborhood activists like Ms. Kirsch. Their logic is that too much of the power over whether new housing and infrastructure projects get built is left to a relatively small band of activists who pack late-night city meetings to tell their city councils that whatever is being proposed is “out of character” and should be built somewhere else — not in their backyard.
> That turnabout is what’s so baffling to activists like Ms. Kirsch. In the late 1970s, when she moved to Marin County, California was in the vanguard of an ideological backlash that created modern environmentalism and rejected the assumption that a growing economy and more people were always good — a cause that was championed by state and national politicians and celebrated everywhere from songs to magazine covers.
[How house prices and sky-high rents predicted Donald Trump’s US election victory](https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/house-prices-donald-trump-us-election/?hl=en-US)
> For University of Oxford political scientist Ben Ansell, who has researched the relationship between house prices and politics, Trump’s return to the White House for a second stint was not a surprise.
> “The rise of populism in the States, in Britain and in Europe, I think, is predictable by house prices, whether it’s caused by it is a separate question,” Ansell told the Big Issue. “In general, the support for Donald Trump, the support for Brexit, is generally higher in places where property prices stagnated and it’s generally lower in places that have had booming property prices – your big, cosmopolitan cities.
I think what people on this forum should understand is that the post-cold war global order, one that has seen rapid rises in quality of life for the global median person, is a byproduct of American investment in foreign countries and American military, economic, and cultural hegemony.