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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by TulliusCicero on Saturday December 02, 2017 @06:42AM (#15831493)
Most Americans are hardly even aware of zoning. It's an obscure section of law. Thus, cultural momentum prevails. And the people who would most want denser housing are the people who would move to an area, and they don't get a vote.

I moved to Munich last year. I can hardly even tell which neighborhoods are affluent or poorer, it's so different from the US.

What I'm saying is that we have entrenched economic segregation in our country, and people like you defend it because "whatever is desirable is acceptable".

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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem by WillPostForFood on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:31PM (#15833552)
As someone in the bay area in a SFH, I can tell you that in my neighborhood that is incorrect. People are incredibly aware of zoning, it isn't obscure, and people obsess over it in the neighborhood groups and lists.
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