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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Push these "liberals" on other options for integrating their neighborhoods’ schools by race and class and you'll find stone walls. They gently explain that zoning to make housing more affordable in their wealthy enclaves wouldn't suit “the neighborhood's ecology." They'll explain that busing or flexible enrollment boundaries would "change the character" of their wealthy neighborhood schools.

https://www.the74million.org/article/opinion-liberals-push-to-correct-inequality-just-not-if-it-involves-opening-up-our-neighborhood-schools[/quote]So I take it, OP, that you oppose basing school enrollment on neighborhood because it ends up with class-segregated schools?  Or you think neighborhoods should be desegregated by using inclusive zoning and affordable house?  Good for you![/quote]

I am not opposed to affordable housing per se, but if DC is going to provide affordable housing, then they should not leave out the huge swath of people making more than $100,000 to about $150,000 or so who are priced out of many neighborhoods. If they don't this large swath in the middle, then I am opposed.[/quote]

"Affordable housing" isn't about making housing broadly more affordable. Think about it. What does "more affordable" mean? Less valuable. For a substantial portion of Americans, the equity in their home represents their only investment. You're going to take that away by depressing housing prices? Good luck with that.

The only affordable housing that is politically palatable is giving people too poor to ever own a home subsidies on their rent so that their landlords can charge more. [/quote]

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