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Well, my home in Ward 3 is not in a historic district, and I'm all for upzoning the area near us so more people can afford to live here. I don't think that'll have any effect on my property values (since I'll still live in a single-family house), and I don't really think the prospect of slightly more crowded schools or streets is a good enough reason to continue to advocate for exclusionary zoning policies that make it so you can't move here without the capital to spend more than $1 million on a house. Cities change all the time. And as a PP pointed out, arguing that changing lower-income black neighborhoods by encouraging well-paid young white people to move there, pushing out longstanding residents, would be better than changing wealthy white neighborhoods is pretty obnoxious. [/quote]

It sounds like you’re in favor of segregation to me, but you’re just framing it in a way that makes it feel acceptable to you. [b]It’s okay to live near lower income black people. [/b]Many of them who sell their homes to newcomers make a big profit. That’s not being “pushed out.” And it’s okay for those neighborhoods to change just like I recognize my neighborhood will change (as long as those changes are permitted by law).[/quote]

Do you live in Ward 3?[/quote]

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