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Alex Armlovich
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Whoa wait a minute I'm starting to worry this Serkin guy might be using public housing as a thin veneer over his underlying view that apartments should be banned!
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@JerusalemDemsas
It continues to astonish me that at a time where so much research has been digitized and made easily available to any interested party with a wifi connection, so many people would rather just be wrong about stuff. open.substack.com/pub/theargumen
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Otis Reid
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Great takedown of this piece from @JerusalemDemsas today — come for the points about how most of the WW2 government housing was temporary trailers, stay for the continually underrated point that zoning changes are essentially free to the government! open.substack.com/pub/theargumen
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@JerusalemDemsas
Rereading that pushed me over the edge from "maybe they got some facts wrong" to "this is just concern trolling from NIMBYs"
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He says protect property values up front. Of course land that’s unzoned becomes dramatically more valuable so the protection must mean upwards in a controlled way.
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