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If the median home is 350k, then there are already houses somewhere down around 295k or all the houses are identically priced.

Even now, $50k is only $350/mo. I doubt there's terribly many gangbangers for whom $350/mo is the cutoff.

They just don't want anything to change (literally "conservative" even if progressive politically) and will make any argument they can find for it.

At some point you can't win by convincing them, you either bribe them or steamroll them.

The bribery is very effective, make the developer build a new library or redo all the streets or something.