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Christopher F. Rufo
CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO is an adjunct fellow at PRI, a filmmaker, writer, and policy researcher. Director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty and a contributing editor at City Journal, Christopher graduated from Georgetown University and was a Claremont Institute Lincoln fellow.
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In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world at Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individuals are slowing rail traffic between Sacramento and the Bay Area and swarming subway trains in Los Angeles in search of a place to sleep when they’re not languishing on Skid Row.
Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life.
This historic narrative combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process.