White Families Sucked the Suburbs Dry
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A new book looks at how white families depleted the resources of the suburbs and left more recent Black and Latino residents “holding the bag.”
  • JoBo
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    10 months ago

    The article is fine. Blame the sub-editor for picking up one of the two metaphors in this quote:

    Marohn suggests that what’s happened in places such as Ferguson and Penn Hills is the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme. It’s “the development version of slash-and-burn agriculture,” he tells the author. “We build a place, we use up the resources, and when the returns start diminishing, we move on, leaving a geographic time bomb in our wake!”