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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If housing is a human right, then YIMBYs are part of the core problem.

https://www.housingisahumanright.org/what-is-a-yimby-hint-its-not-good/[/quote]

These are the YIMBYs, people:

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sb-827-rallies-end-with-yimbys-shouting-down-protesters-of-color/article_42f1bb0c-c4c5-5401-a395-5aff1b28137c.html[/quote]

NOVA YIMBYs are overwhelmingly white with a maybe a southeast Asian or two, one or two African Americans, and with a penchant for patronizing and condescending to lower income POC, or people  they deem beneath their overly-educated standards.  [/quote]

Except for, you know, the NCAAP supporting pro-housing legislation because they understand Econ 101. But yeah, other than that you are entirely correct! (meaning, totally wrong)[/quote]

Of course, the NAACP (assuming you mean the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and not whatever NCAAP might be) support pro-housing legislation. They have gotten royal screwed by white gentrifiers and will continue to be screwed over by Missing Middle.  One of the few African American NoVa YIMBYs runs the Arlington NAACP.  He is working to keep missing middle out of the few remaining African American neighborhoods like Johnson's Hill, Green Valley, Halls Hill and Highview Park.  He is also advocating for actual affordable housing rental units to house the people being displaced by gentrification.   A Thanksgiving tradition for decades, the Halls Hill turkey bowl team now had two residents of Halls Hill on the team. The others have been gentrified out of the community where most of them had lived for years.

In addition to Econ 101 I understand politics 101.  [/quote]

So he acknowledges missing middle destroys existing communities and their residents?[/quote]

He is talking about Arlington where gentrification has already done that and more gentrification encouraged by MM housing will continue it.

Harris is making the lack of housing an important part of her campaign.  I should follow to see if she has said much about rezoning single family areas to encourage multifamily development. The big "success" is Portland, OR, but the most of the MM housing there is Accessory Dwelling Units built behind single family houses.  Maybe 5,000 ADUs built in Portland but far fewer plexes.  [/quote] It would be idiotic to campaign on eliminating single family zoning. Harris will lose PA and some other swing states due to backlash from suburban voters. [/quote]

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