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It was a tongue in check comment. And prices in my area have skyrocketed due to all the transplants.

• epistasis 4y ago
  IMHO you could say due to the transplants, or you could say due to not enough vacant homes to house them. If you focus on "these people are the problem" then you get results like what's happening in California. If you focus on "we don't have enough vacant homes" then there's a chance of actually solving the problem. As a Californian, I devote a huuuuge amount of unpaid time to trying to shift the conversation to housing the people that need housing, rather than shipping people to whereever it is you live. I have not been terribly successful, but if you also shape your conversation towards "we need to house people" rather than "these people are problems," then it will be faaaar easier to convince my neighbors to also accept people. Because Californians are hypocrites, but they hate being proven to be hypocrites when other states are more welcoming and accepting. But if, say, Austion or Boise folks are like "we don't want you either" then it just encourages our NIMBYs as feeling justified.