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[quote]The whole thing makes a mockery of zoning laws. [/quote]

They are done in accordance with zoning laws.

[quote]They are almost always extremely ugly -- the developer makes no effort to match the architecture of the neighborhood. [/quote]

I find some of them attractive.

[quote]And they are comically large, towering over their neighbors.[/quote]

One of the most controversial was built down the black from a LARGER apt building.    Of course when you have entire block of them, they no longer tower over their neighbors at all.

[quote]Also, all of this is pretty much only allowed in historically black neighborhoods. You will never ever see anything like this in wealthy white neighborhoods which have banned such developments. [/quote]

The only white neighborhood that stoppeed them was Lanier Heights, IIRC.  That was of course a mistake, and should be undone.  But most of the places where pop ups are done now are already white.

[quote]Advocates try to portray this as increasing the affordability of housing, but that's just spin. These are luxury condos they're building. They can cost $1 million each. They're not for average people. 
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Actually they tend to run about 800k for a 2BR, less for smaller or less well located ones. If the 500k rowhouses were NOT popped up, they would still be flipped, and renovated, and generally would sell for one million or quite a bit more.  To me an 800k 2BR condo, or a 600K one bedroom condo, is more affordable than a 1.3 million buck SFH.

Some people think that banning popups would prevent flipping and gentrification.  I do not believe that is the case. [/quote]

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