Roy Beck

Last year, Roy Beck and Leon Kolankiewicz released a report entitled Sprawl in California that used U.S. Census data to challenge some of the traditional assumptions about why cities spill beyond their borders. “California’s population boom has been the number one factor in the state’s relentless urban sprawl, even though most anti-sprawl efforts exclusively target consumption factors,” the report concludes.

Roy Beck challenges conventional wisdom as director of NumbersUSA, a population policy group and website based in Washington, D.C. He advocates reducing immigration levels to allow the U.S. population to stabilize, but he’s no immigrant basher. “To talk about changing immigration numbers is to say nothing against the individual immigrants in this country,” he says. 

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