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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Yup. I live in a town that has an absurd number of homeless people because it's one of the worst housing markets in the country. NIMBYs recently tried to shutdown a massive housing project that would add over a hundred units of affordable housing, plus a new library, plus some parking and retail space...the spot is currently a broken ass parking lot that one of a dozen farmers markets uses on one day every week for about 9 months of the year...and some non native magnolia trees that nobody even cares about because they are in a broken ass parking lot. Like old rich folks held vigils and protests for the trees. I have also seen these types kill a developer's plan to add less than ten units to a townhouse development that would have been "affordable" which around here means sub $750k. These townhomes would have started in the low $500s and the NIMBYs were worried that people who could afford a $500k home would be the wrong kind of people. Capitalism has broken us.
gpt
ah, a wild santa cruzian spotted. what a shitshow, eh?