> Whether it’s to protect their property values, exclude Black people, keep down traffic or protect their city’s physical environment, these cities make it hard to build new housing.
Stopped reading at this part. What an ignorant thing to say.
Stopped reading at this part. What an ignorant thing to say.
These cities DO make it hard to build new housing. There's no question about that. It's an ongoing political issue, and all the reasons listed have been used to attack or defend that policy.
Economics is like the "race by proxy" get out of jail free card.
The prevented BART from going down the peninsula to stop "undesirables" coming to their cities.
They were historically redlined to explicitly exclude any PoC.
They have a deeply ingrained prejudice, which may be less racially motivated now, but to claim that that prejudice isn't present is ignorant.
Even San Jose had police trying to stop BART from reaching due to it allowing the "criminals" from Oakland for some reason using one of the least reliable public transit systems to go to SJ and commit crimes, the flee back to Oakland.