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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh I read it.  
Your "plan" seems to be asking people to give up 5% of ____ if they truly support affordable housing.  Got it.  Good luck with that.[/quote]

I'm not asking anything. I'm pointing out that the cries of "affordable housing" are fake. NIMBYs don't care about affordable housing.[/quote]

NP, and this is exactly right.

Here's a thought experiment - say that this zoning change was the same in every way, but that it required true affordable housing, or workforce housing.  And also assume that the magical revenue fairy was going to underwrite the costs of that affordable/workforce housing.  Does anyone think, for one second, that the people complaining "it doesn't *really* provide workforce housing" would support it?

Of course not - because their real objection is that they don;t want to live near people who live in affordable/workforce housing, because they are too poor (if you're being charitable) or too brown (if you're not).  [/quote]

I’m surprised to see an advocate of this proposal admit so quickly that it was based on a lie.

I would have supported this proposal if it had no workforce or affordable housing component instead of the lies. The lies made me skeptical of the proposal because the sponsors never were clear about their real objectives. If you have to lie about something to get support, you’re probably not doing something good.

The crowd that showed up to oppose this had a lot brown people in it. But maybe you don’t really see brown people?[/quote]

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