When he says (paraphrase) "gentrification is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself."

My thing is, this is all about supply and demand, and in America, its about the demand for compact walkable urbanity far exceeding the embarrassingly low supply.

Everyone has a right to move to a new city, village, forest or neighborhood that better suits the life they want.

The problem is, outside of a few specs across this country that could be rattled off in one breath, America is developed for automobiles instead of homosapiens and our nation's brief but destructive infatuation with autocentric suburb experiment has worn off and now the 50 states are covered in the sprawl it spawned.

The solution isn't shaming people for moving somewhere they like.

The solution is building wayyy more places that people like.

The great Italian city of Florence fits in the same amount of space as a friggin roundabout on a Georgia highway. Just think how many fantastic smaller but lively urban places could be dreamed up and built to replace the average run down plaza parking lot, etc.

Instead of building more fighter jets and nuclear submarines, we could be giving each county in America a beautiful selection of lively villages and compact urban hot spots.

It's actually a really positive thing that the children of the suburbs are trying to move back into urban spaces, for many reasons, the environment being perhaps chief among them from a long term birds-eye view.

A large portion of the population living in American sprawl are there because they don't have any other options. Create more places for us to live compact, and watch the suburba thin out, many homes happily abandoned, giving way to nature and a more truly rural life for those remaining who want that.

Prices in these urban spots are skyrocketing because they offer a lifestyle that's ubiquitous in much of the world but super rare in America.

Create more of the stuff the people actually want, prices will go back down, everyone will be able to live somewhere decent,