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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Theres also this mindset that people should be able to live and maybe even buy in whatever neighborhood they please, regardless of income.  Thats just not how life works.  [/quote]

Well yeah, that's kind of the whole point of YIMBYism, that we want to change how life works because we think it could be better.

Nobody is saying anyone who wants a 5br house in AU Park should have one, we're just saying maybe there shouldn't be laws that prevent property owners building multifamily housing on their own property so that someone who can't afford a 5BR house but can afford a studio apartment can live there.   [/quote]

Actually, that's exactly what the young couples at the ANC meetings were voicing--that they wanted bigger / better than the apartments they were living in in Ward 3. "Affordable starter Family living without leaving the neighborhood" . And how do these studio apartments address that exactly? These young couples seemed BOTH entitled and confused in their YIMBYism.[/quote]

"I like this neighborhood and would like to be able to raise a family in it" doesn't seem like an entitled statement.

As for confused - you like your neighborhood too, right? So why would that statement be confusing?[/quote]

It's secretly racist when we people "liking your neighborhood" means wanting to build duplexes, but not when "liking your neighborhood" means wanting only to build SFHs. Welcome to NIMBY jujitsu.[/quote]

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