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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Argh, we have to have this conversation again?

It is possible to unintentionally encourage effects that are racist through actions that are not intended to.

For instance, policies that prioritize single family home ownership in a place with rapidly scaling home prices encourages racial segregation because of a historical racial wealth gap.

No one is trying to be racist, in fact in many cases the thought is that encouraging home ownership is a way to build wealth. but in a time of rising prices where a buyer  has to bring more and more money to the table to buy a house, and BIPoC people may not have the same generational resources (read, parents who don’t need financial support and can actually sometimes give money) as white people, the inequities are perpetuated, and more expensive houses are purchased by those who have more generational resources who tend to be white and richer, blah blah.

Didn’t we have the structural racism talk in 2020?

Policies that are designed to keep neighborhoods SFH and bias to home ownership have an unintended effect of perpetuating housing segregation, which has downstream effects on opportunities (for instance, access to good schools and jobs) for people. Diversifying neighborhoods with different home types (including renters!) is one tool to try to spread the opportunity around to people who don’t have access to generational wealth, and take one step to correcting for systemic racism inherent in society.

So no one is saying that you are racist for saving for and buying a house. What this is saying is that a reason a policy like this is good is because it is one of many steps to break down racial advantages, and opposing it may have the effect of contributing to the perpetuation of racial inequities.

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You know what destroys generational wealth for POC, upzoning relatively affordable predominately minority middle class neighborhoods and permanently pricing their children out of single family home ownership. Don't give me this BS about "bias" towards homeownership perpetuating system inequalities. Middle class homeownership is the foundation of financial stability for the average American and [b]the only person that benefits from destroying single family neighborhoods are the large corporate landlords that will benefit from an increase in the supply lifetime renters[/b]. [/quote]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the people who live in the housing also benefit.

It would also be helpful to clarify that the neighborhoods are not being destroyed.[/quote]

Yes they are if you upzone the population density to 8x[/quote]

We must have different ideas about what destruction means.[/quote]

Turning a farmland into suburban neighborhood necessarily destroys the farmland, Same thing for upzoning single family neighborhoods to high density housing. By definition it destroys what previously existed because the place has change so much that it no longer bears any meaningful resembles to its previous form. [/quote]

Well, no. Building houses on farmland does destroy the farmland. Allowing property owners to build two-to-four-unit housing in a neighborhood where previously only one-unit housing was allowed does not destroy the neighborhood. In fact, I don't think it destroys the neighborhood even if property owners actually build two-to-four-unit housing in it. It changes the neighborhood, certainly, but it doesn't destroy the neighborhood.[/quote]

Your personal opinion is noted.[/quote]

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