star_wraith [he/him] to askchapo • edit-24 years agoHow come white folks go into a white hot rage and fight tooth and nail against any efforts to build affordable housing within 5 miles of their house?message-squaremessage-square56 fedilinkarrow-up1161file-text
arrow-up1161message-squareHow come white folks go into a white hot rage and fight tooth and nail against any efforts to build affordable housing within 5 miles of their house?star_wraith [he/him] to askchapo • edit-24 years agomessage-square56 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
Is it just pure racism? Is it just overall hatred of poor people? Some combo of the two? Something else entirely?
minus-squareWertheimer [any]hexbear4·4 years agoAnd 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 link
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