Is it just pure racism? Is it just overall hatred of poor people? Some combo of the two? Something else entirely?

  • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Property values"

    Low property values near low-income housing are a manifestation of society's racism and classism.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I like how Justin on WTYP said it on their five-over-one episode: getting every (white) person into their own single-family home after WWII was the single most effective tool in fostering anti-communism in the US.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This. One of the things that really made me start to think the idea of incremental reform might be a dead end is when I realized just how interlinked all these systems are with housing. You really can't tackle the idea of passing huge low income housing policies without also addressing the fact that for a huge number of families their house is their primary financial asset. You pretty much have to uproot and scrap the entire system.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          4 years ago

          And in California it's even worse than it might otherwise be because of a 1950s amendment to the state constitution that says that low income housing has to be approved by referendum.

          https://web.archive.org/web/20210216180316/https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-affordable-housing-constitution-20190203-story.html