[jhatemyjob]

> Whether it’s to protect their property values, exclude Black people, keep down traffic or protect their city’s physical environment, these cities make it hard to build new housing.

Stopped reading at this part. What an ignorant thing to say.

[cwp]

Ignorant? Not at all.

These cities DO make it hard to build new housing. There's no question about that. It's an ongoing political issue, and all the reasons listed have been used to attack or defend that policy.

[AnimalMuppet]

What flaw (other than "ignorant") do you find in what it says?

[throwaway1777]

Well, it’s pretty dumb to suggest that these are the main reasons we don’t build housing. How about government corruption and special interest groups as big factors in the problem? Most of the time housing projects are blocked by people who want to “protect minorities” or “stop gentrification” or get a kickback from some developer. It’s quite the opposite of wanting to exclude minorities or raise property values.

[cammikebrown]

Most of the time? People definitely want to stop gentrification in working class neighborhoods, but if you live in the Marina or Silicon Valley, there’s already been gentrification. Wealthy homeowners absolutely do block new housing in wealthy neighborhoods.

[teej]

I voted in my Bay Area city's local election in November. Property values, traffic, and environmental concerns were ALL policy justifications for curbing new housing.

[jokethrowaway]

I think the article accusation of racism is misplaced, they just don't want poor people in their fancy city.

[onethought]

Oh not racist at all then. Stop a group of people from accumulating wealth then just segregate based on wealth. Not Racist at all.

Economics is like the "race by proxy" get out of jail free card.

[olliej]

why? they deliberately sue to stop almost any new housing construction.

The prevented BART from going down the peninsula to stop "undesirables" coming to their cities.

They were historically redlined to explicitly exclude any PoC.

They have a deeply ingrained prejudice, which may be less racially motivated now, but to claim that that prejudice isn't present is ignorant.

Even San Jose had police trying to stop BART from reaching due to it allowing the "criminals" from Oakland for some reason using one of the least reliable public transit systems to go to SJ and commit crimes, the flee back to Oakland.