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Yes, property values IS local politics. Race tensions is fundamentally about property values. Policing is about property values. Road construction and transp
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Yes, property values IS local politics.
Race tensions is fundamentally about property values.
Policing is about property values.
Road construction and transport infrastructure is about property values.
Bike paths and parks are about property values.
- thfuran 3y agoThat's a massive oversimplification.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoA lot of that viewpoint is informed by the Detroit white flight phenomenon. I find it hard to believe that every single white person in a neighborhood would be so racist that the mirror arrival of a single black family would trigger the mass migration of all white people from that neighborhood No, it really was the property values. Of course, the property values exist under those rules because of inherent racism. There's no denying that. Perhaps all the white people were just covering themselves by saying oh, we are leaving because of other people's racism, not because of ours. We are leaving because our property values are decreasing from other people's racism.