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This take is completely ignorant of the history around this. It is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes in many places in US cities. This is
by notJim 6y ago
This take is completely ignorant of the history around this. It is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes in many places in US cities. This is due to an (often-racist) history of homeowners creating laws to keep lower-income people out of their neighborhoods. This continues to this day, where many NIMBY homeowners will fight tooth and nail to prevent any kind of dense development being built in their neighborhood.
- 0x00000000 6y agoYes, and the rhetoric about “preserving the character of the neighborhood” is indistinguishable from that used when this redlining was instituted. Bizarre and sad to see misguided progressives (including renters) with no understanding of economics parrot the same lines and thinking that stopping new construction will keep prices down.