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i agree in principle to the yimby movement, but i don't agree with some of the antagonism described in the article against the mission's latino population. isn
by clairity 9y ago
i agree in principle to the yimby movement, but i don't agree with some of the antagonism described in the article against the mission's latino population.
isn't there a compromise to be reached between the two groups?
latinos want to stay in the neighborhood but can't afford $4K rents (who really can? or should? $48K in rent, yikes!). yimbys want more units. so give developers a sweetner so they can be profitable but also build more affordable units. i know it's harder than it sounds, but it's been done many times before, so it's achieveable. but when it starts becoming us-vs-them, that just makes it so much harder.
- readams 9y agoThe fundamental disconnect is there's a (large) group of people that think building expensive housing is bad for the housing crisis. This is 180 degrees wrong: what's needed to solve the affordability crisis are more units. Below market rate units ("affordable" units) are by definition always in short supply.
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- justmyself 9y agoI want to live in Bel Air but I can't afford the crazy rents. Government, come save me!