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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] YMBY is not a libertarian movement.

It is a movement that understands that the racist roots of much of the single family zoning has artificially inflated the cost of land and homes. It is a movement that recognizes that the zoning regime and historic preservation has been weaponized to maintain a classist status quo.

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[b]Of course. Racist!!!  SFH are racist.  People who live in them - racist!   What a crock full of sh!t.[/b]   [/quote]

NP here.  I didn’t even know about the NIMBY vs YIMBY debates until this thread.  However, I feel confident if you wanted to know what information is out there around single family zoning history and impact on class and racial segregation you could find it.  It took me less than three minutes https://www.investopedia.com/single-family-zoning-5192299.  The person above did not say living in a SFH is racists they said much of the single family home zoning has racists roots.
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There is a failure here of understanding correlation and causation. When zoning fist started in America it was a very racist country so every public policy decision was permeated with racism. However, zoning itself was about separating desirable and undesirable land used to improve quality of life and public health. For example, living next to a factory or a pig sty was determined to be negative for health and quality of life and residential, industrial and agricultural zones were thus separated. Keeping in mind that zoning also started after the Spanish Flu pandemic, typhoid, etc and as a result, public health was also a concern and because people were racist they thought that Black, Brown and Irish people were vectors for disease, so they tried to make policy to keep themselves away from the Irish. It’s not that complicated. [/quote]

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