[peterwwillis]

In general, the argument here is "Fucking rich people!! They're ruining it for the rest of us!", which I don't think has ever been a successful way to get anything you want. Moreover, they're missing half of why this is happening: their beloved shitty neighborhoods are being cleaned up by new business and new housing.

If they got enough political control over the zoning board or the city council they could make it impossible for new businesses to be approved, make it harder for the ones there now, and generally make it difficult to impossible to create new condos. Either they suck at local politics or they're being too anti-authoritarian to accomplish their goals in a meaningful way.