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by bell-cot
883 days ago
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NIMBYism, which is mostly driven by: Homeowner Greed - if fast-rising home prices are making you richer & richer, then (per the classic supply vs. demand price curve) you only want a token number of very upscale homes to be built anywhere near your house. Municipal Finances - when local government is mostly supported by property taxes, a $4M luxury house pays 40X the taxes that a $100K starter house does, and the cost of providing municipal services is not much different between the two...guess what? "Wrong Sort" FUD - if lots of people are scared of (or bigoted against) anyone who's poorer than them, or has darker skin, or ... well, they'll for-sure find reasons to zealously oppose anything that might attract "those sorts" to the area around their homes. |
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There are, on the other hand, plenty of reasonable objections that arise from the nature of dense housing in certain areas, rather than from people's race/class/etc. Sometimes development projects really do destroy nice lower-middle to middle class communities (consisting of exactly the homes the parent is describing), that people have worked their whole lives to live in (one of the last remnants of the simple version of the American Dream).
Developers are no more rational/benevolent than governments, and therefore not everybody who has opposed any one development project is a villain who is racist/elitist/immoral in comparison to you.