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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It annoys the crap out of me that developers, realtors and mortgage brokers are out here using this anonymous board for their arguments.[/quote]

It boggles my mind that people simply can't fathom people believing in these policies without it being based on personal profit motive.

Do you think that all of the following organizations and people are somehow captured by the developers and have no independent basis for supporting the policy?

the White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/06/17/exclusionary-zoning-its-effect-on-racial-discrimination-in-the-housing-market/

HUD: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-featd-article-072417.html

ACLU: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-featd-article-072417.html

NAACP:  https://www.arlnow.com/2024/07/09/racial-equity-arguments-raised-in-naacp-filing-on-missing-middle-lawsuit/

National Low Income Housing Coalition:  https://nlihc.org/resource/research-finds-high-demand-municipalities-have-experienced-limited-housing-growth-likely

Just to name a few....

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Thanks. And not one of these agencies / organizations addresses the very real consequences of density for the people living in the neighborhoods that are working class / middle class. And specifically that is it will ruin the neighborhood, overcrowd schools (already an issue for us in this county), and overtax already old and under maintenanced infrastructure.

You want to create affordable housing. Nice. Don’t do it on the backs of middle class and working class homeowners in the name of those very same homeowners! [/quote]

PP here.  I wasn't arguing whether or not the proposal IS good public policy.  I was arguing that many people sincerely believe that it is.

Let's start there, rather than dismissing any and all proponents as motivated by individual profit motive, and somehow deceitfully masquerading as a "normal resident."[/quote]

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