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gh234ip t1_jcdri8h wrote

Reply to comment by intjish_mom in Douglaston residents come out against Hocul’s affordable housing plan by Russianb0t1

Wouldn't banning single family homes be doing the same?

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chargeorge t1_jcdvgsf wrote

No one is suggesting to ban single family homes. We are discussing reducing the amount of places where that’s the only legal thing to build

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intjish_mom t1_jce0tsf wrote

Who said anything about banning single family houses? I just said we should get rid of single family housing zones. It's a fact that Single family zones were created to prevent building multiple family houses which are are associated with low income housing. It was a workaround against having " no black people" written into housing guidelines which was definitely a thing before the 50s. After they've always changed saying that they couldn't do that, a lot of places created restrictions limiting housing to single-family housing because poor people, aka the blacks, couldn't afford it.

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