Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/wealthy-liberal-suburbs-economic-segregation-scarsdale/674792/

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Wealthy conservative areas also erect barriers to new housing, but liberal areas are typically worse. Writing in 2022, the Brookings Institution researcher Jenny Schuetz observed that “decades of painstaking research of zoning by economists and urban planners have produced a high degree of consensus on which places in the United States have tight land use regulations, regardless of the method used to measure zoning.” She argues that “overly restrictive zoning is most prevalent and problematic along the West Coast and the Northeast corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston.” These areas “lean heavily Democratic in national, state and local elections.” And studies that examine the stringency of zoning within states—for example, California—find that the most restrictive zoning is found in the more politically liberal communities.

 

When I first moved to the US I lived in Boulder County and observed this first hand, if anything it has become more pronounced.

 

I was driving yesterday listening to NPR and the author was on, quite fascinating, he confirmed my observations that those who shout DIE the loudest tend to be performative, it does seem that a lot of the Lawn Signs have disappeared for some reason.

 

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Of Princeton, New Jersey—whose voters favored Biden over Trump by a six-to-one margin—the political scientist Omar Wasow has acerbically observed, “There are people in the town of Princeton who will have a Black Lives Matter sign on their front lawn and a sign saying ‘We love our Muslim neighbors,’ but oppose changing zoning policies that say you have to have an acre and a half per house.” He continued: “That means, ‘We love our Muslim neighbors, as long as they’re millionaires.’” (Having a modest number of wealthy neighbors of color may convince privileged white homeowners that the system is just.)

 

 

Anyway if you want to listen here is the link. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/08/03/can-class-based-preferences-over-race-solve-our-countrys-equity-issues

 

 

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it's a good example of rules for thee, not for me.  it's ok for everyone else but nimby runs deep for dems - see martha's vineyard.