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Stratified neighborhoods means stratified schools, means stratified networks of connections, which means less social mobility. > Second, trying to manufacture
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
Stratified neighborhoods means stratified schools, means stratified networks of connections, which means less social mobility.
> Second, trying to manufacture non-stratification by telling communities what type of housing they must allow feels a little hamfisted
I'm sorry, but this is COMICALLY absurd at this point.
Here we have communities that have used a relatively recent invention, zoning regulation, to force a historically unprecedented urban pattern of building onto the vast majority of residential land in the US, with the express intent of keeping out undesirables. As the libertarians like to put it, at the point of a gun.
And you're saying the ones who want to loosen regulations, to return to more environmentally friendly, historically common urban building patterns, patterns that would not shut out the poor, are the ones "hamfistedly manufacturing" something?
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble believing that you're not being deliberately disingenuous at this point. It's like calling the removal of Jim Crow laws "hamfisted, manufactured non-segregation".