Smart Growth C'est Bon! Compact infill development can create affordable, inclusive and attractive cities, like Montreal, "plus belle ville au monde." Todd Litman | December 31, 2020, 6am PST Share Planning is challenging but rewarding because it often involves new issues and perspectives. For example, when analyzing urban unaffordability and inequity problems, some of my friends like to apply Marxist analysis: they want to blame rich foreigners, Big Finance, and global corporations for driving up housing prices and squeezing lower-income families out of attractive and economically successful neighborhoods. This video, titled Push, is an example. It argues that housing problems are caused by "fiscalization," and should be solved by declaring housing a human right.