✅ Growing Sunbelt Cities Are the Future of Urban Life

Decay is pervasive throughout U.S. infrastructure. The unsafe drinking water, dangerous bridges, crumbling structures, and damaged roads are seen and experienced writ large. Public policy experts and researchers often point to the poor levels of government investment[1] and call attention to our peer nations’ infrastructure spending, which, as a share of GDP, is 50% higher than Americans’ investment.[2] Some even characterize U.S. infrastructure as shameful in comparison with that of our peers in the developed world.[3] Of course, domestic spending advocates use the same reasoning to justify higher non-infrastructure spending of all kinds.

manhattan.institute     Nov 07, 2024