Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affordable Housing

Re:Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affor... by pwinnski on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:36PM (#34987172)

Their concerns aren't with poor people, but with "traffic" and "density" and "character," which... I mean... Okay. Existing houses clearly don't have cars, and were built to replace existing houses, not on empty lots, right?

"I don't mind people being poor, so long as they don't drive on the same roads I do, and there aren't too many of them, and they don't in any way change the status quo as it existed the moment I finished unpacking my moving boxes."

Call it whatever you want, but a focus on property values is always a push for higher economic brackets, never lower.

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Re:Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affor... by WaxProlix on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:43PM (#34989982)

I hear what you're saying but there's a difference - if a seemingly subtle one - between "their motivations are racist/classist" and "their choices result in effectively racist/classist outcomes[, and they don't care]". Leading with the former puts peoples' backs up and terminates conversations IME.

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