[bgm1975]

Nah, those are code words. What they mean is they’re terrified it might negatively affect their home value (or for some, its racially motivated). Most of these people only care about other people until they think it might negatively effect their perceived wealth. Ask a hope owner if they’d support a bill that would shave 25% of their home value to help…starving children (and we’ll assume the program is proven successful) and most would come up with BS reasons to oppose it.

[khazhoux]

Traffic, no room in schools, and other crowding issues are not code words. They are quite literal concerns. Rather than argue that people are being disingenuous, I would rather someone explain how traffic would be offset or how many more schools would be built.

Or I guess we can just cry racism and greed and that’s that.

[epistasis]

I would say that they are red herrings because despite directly and definitively addressing these issues with people that raise them, they simply come up with a new list of reasons to oppose.

I've been fighting this for years, and it's always the same, there is no way to address all the concerns because the list of concerns is bottomless.

You see it in this thread, we started with concerns about someone sharing a wall and here we are...

Pointing out that schools are emptying in an area due to lack of children with an agong population, and that same person that one second ago was burning with concern for school crowding now has an entirety different concern completely unrelated, and has switched gears without even acknowledging that their concern was addressed.

I don't believe a single person that says these are their actual concerns, unless they continue to show interest in their concern after their objection has been addressed.

These sorts of "concerns" are just stalling tactics, ways to avoid talking about their actual interest: stopping the housing at all costs.