Reply #93: I can't help but think that someone with vision would make money ...

[gauguin57]

... developing neighborhoods that are reasonable and affordable ... smaller contemporaries and Cape Cods, like the ones I grew up in, with small yards ... houses that aren't so huge and impossible to take care of.

Houses for singles, for couples, for people with one or two kids who just want a house they don't have to spend all their time cleaning, yards that don't take hours to mow ... a little spot for a garden and for the kids to play. Houses for people who don't want to go into debt up to their eyeballs in order to have a pleasant place to live.

Not only would such a developer make money (those houses would be great demand, I suspect) ... he or she could feel GOOD about what they did for society.