But if you were to look at this sort of taking a step back, I think there's been three waves I would argue of an Austin narrative that has emerged — in the '60s and '70s, in the '80s and '90s, and since 2000 — and they're all unique in their own way. But how Austin came to be this in the '70s and '80s is more of a relatively middle class and affordable place was that Austin was often in the shadow of cities like Dallas and Houston and San Antonio, and it was the capital city. Because I think part of the reason why it's very hard for city councils to politically make the kinds of decisions that Susana and PODER are calling for is because there's always this fear, even amongst the quote-unquote most progressive city councils, that doing these kinds of changes will, developers will come back and say this reduces our ROI, so we're just not going to build there at all.
Published at: 2025-12-31 21:00:00
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