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Re:Portland passes low-density zoning reform by Karunamon on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:59PM (#24285945)
A pretty good correlation exists between poverty and crime. You see the same kind of reactions in even small cities when there's a plan to build a homeless shelter or halfway house or any other such institutions, nobody wants it in their back yard, nobody wants the negative externalities.

You can call it cold, and it is, but it's also entirely rational.

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Re:Portland passes low-density zoning reform by chasd00 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @04:18PM (#24286799)
same holds for sending your kids to a bad school. I had a conversation with someone about how i should send my kids to the neighborhood under performing school rather than private school because I was perpetuating the downfall. I said to him that he was perfectly free to sacrifice his kids on that altar but I reserve the right not to sacrifice mine.

if you want to move to a poor neighborhood with high crime in order to help save it then more power to you. However, I don't fault anyone wanting to avoid it either.

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