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by temp42564356 4534 days ago
> I am mystified by housing/anti-gentrification advocates' refusal to consider building new housing stock as a solution to this problem.

Because an anti-gentrification advocate is bascially saying, "you don't have the right to desire to live in my neighborhood, only I should be allowed to desire to live in my neighborhood"

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"... that I moved to as part of the last round of gentrification."
That's the real kicker. They are all "forty-niners".
Bit ironic given that those complaining the loudest likely displaced others in the not-so-distant past.