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If you're interested in more on why housing is expensive and complicated, I can't recommend Jerusalem Damsas' work highly enough: https://www.vox.com/authors/je
by cheriot 5y ago
If you're interested in more on why housing is expensive and complicated, I can't recommend Jerusalem Damsas' work highly enough: https://www.vox.com/authors/jerusalem-demsas https://www.vox.com/authors/jerusalem-demsas
In particular, the video in this article sums up the problem https://www.vox.com/videos/2021/8/17/22628750/how-the-us-made-affordable-homes-illegal https://www.vox.com/videos/2021/8/17/22628750/how-the-us-mad...
- epicureanideal 5y agoThe video is good, but I found it disturbing how often the speaker mentioned the race of a group of people while identifying them as a problem. For example, "often a much whiter, wealthier crowd...".
- sollewitt 5y agoWhy do you find that disturbing?
- refurb 5y agoIt's race baiting.
- thatjoeoverthr 5y agoBecause it’s building a threat narrative. Anyone familiar with the great crimes of the 20th century knows what that looks like.
- cheriot 5y agoMany of those crimes were committed against the people who now feel threatened. That's worth acknowledging.
- cheriot 5y agoIt’s acknowledging the current discourse around gentrification. Changing that is the whole point of the video