Seeing a pattern of behavior from the past is not bias, it's context. Also, are you going to hold YIMBY accountable for causing an elderly woman to faint at that protest?
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I think the point a lot of people are making is that, historically, building new stuff, including housing, has led to the displacement of low-income tenants, particularly in communities of color. And there are some contemporary examples of this, too. So the distrust remains.
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The issue is that new construction only generally pencils when prevailing rents are already high enough to induce displacement in the existing housing stock. New housing didn’t pencil in Oakland until 2014, after a crisis was well underway.
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I think the two camps differ most in priority, and that of course stems from what they deal in. Groups like Tenants Union see evicted people every day, help them, speak with them. It's not a surprise they would favor protections.
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