This. I love the NYT and am left-of-center and also white, so, "PRIVILEGE ALERT" or whatever is en vogue now, but I always questioned this. Some of it is way, way, way too bleeding heart.
Detroit has a high-proportion of owner-occupants, I would imagine moreso than someplace like Chicago or certainly NYC. My neighborhood in Detroit was overwhelmingly owner-occupant, and all of my neighbors, black or white, would literally cheer when new families moved in the neighborhood.
With owner-occupants, folks can either sell for a profit or stay put. The Headlee amendment prevents their taxes from increasing as long as they stay there. So the problem is...less...vacancy?
Now, I feel for the renters. So how about rent control?
And I don't want other places in the country to become like that godforsaken hellhole San Francisco [[I mean, cool place if you like living in a city of childless, soulless tech billionares). I think people should at least be able to live somewhere near where they [[often have to) work.
Then there is a measure of, yeah, you can't just live anywhere just because you're a very special boy. I'd like to live on Central Park but it ain't gonna happen. Times change and people move. That is history.
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