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by CalRobert 2547 days ago
Because making it more affordable to the poor means increasing the housing supply, which means reducing the price of homes, which existing homeowners hate.
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But it's the people who live there who are complaining. Besides I doubt that stepping over homeless people is good for the price of homes.

Increasing the housing supply, if there's room for that, seems like a no-brainer.