Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by harimau777 on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:00PM
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In that case, then I think it would be reasonable to criticize them. Although, it still seems to me that it wouldn't hurt to put something in the law that specifically says that they won't build giant tower blocks.
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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by davidw on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:31PM
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The more you read about this stuff, you realize that there's some real ugliness there - now and in the past. Maybe not everyone, but it goes well beyond the original intent of zoning to keep housing away from factories and tanneries and such.
https://www.sightline.org/2018/05/25/a-century-of-exclusion-...
Of course, in places like San Francisco and Portland, people are mostly smart enough to not "say the quiet part out loud", so they come up with other excuses.
Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by inferiorhuman on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:55PM
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Of course, in places like San Francisco and Portland, people are mostly smart enough to not "say the quiet part out loud", so they come up with other excuses.
No we fucking said the quiet part out loud quite proudly in San Francisco. Take a look at the covenants in the Forest Hill neighborhood. It's still fairly bad as those folks recently successfully fought an attempt at building a low income retirement home.
And we certainly weren't that offended by the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
by inferiorhuman on Sunday January 19, 2020 @12:16AM
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Long form piece about racist housing policies in San Francisco:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90242388/the-bad-design-that-cre...