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This post from CEOs for Cities about Ford Foundation via Good Jobs, reveals that tax breaks are causing sprawl which is costly.  Consider that, besides the loss of tax money and the inequities mentioned, the costs of expanding outside of the city, when taken per capita, are hugely more than the cost of sustaining someone who lives urbanly.  Roads, utility grids, energy, social services etc all subsidized in a vast environment with few people where money simply cannot and will not go as far.

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