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A comment on Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments. Parent comment

Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by deepakhj on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:54PM (#19445526)
A lot of zoning regulations exist to keep black people out. See single family zoning, redlining, and apartment building bans.

Texas has barely any zoning and it’s doing fine.

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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by donarb on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:40PM (#19447246)
Texas? The place where anybody can build a house in a flood plain and then expect the government to bail them out when the river rises? The place where currently a blazing chemical fire is allowed to burn for days and neighbors (to a chemical plant?) are told to stay indoors until it burns itself out? Doesn't sound like they are doing fine.
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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by leesalminen on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @03:54PM (#19446172)
/s/black/poor
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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by sushisushisushi on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:51PM (#19446746)
Zoning regulations are a tool of civic planning. The fact that racist civic planners use them to enact racist zoning regulations does not mean that zoning regulations in and of themselves are racist or always end up being racist.

There is tons of zoning in Texas; I think you're thinking of Houston.

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