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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm also going to note that people oppose bills like this (allowing duplexes) on grounds that they won't increase affordable housing, but also oppose affordable-housing projects on grounds that they're "projects".[/quote] Or, just maybe, they want to keep their neighborhoods like they are. With space and yards. Lots of people did not grow up in urban environments and will resist it. You can't blame that on racism--like the delegate does. But, then, he blames everything on racism. [/quote] A house with a granny flat for rent, or a quarter acre lot with two THs instead of one SFH, hardly sounds "urban" to me. Still lots of space. (and of course you don't have to do any of that with YOUR property if you don't want to) So I think he is not far wrong that fear of "others" (and of course to some people racial others are precisely what "urban" means, not high rises) is one of the motives for SFH only zoning. [/quote]
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