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Minneapolis, tackling housing crisis and inequity, votes to end single-family zoning
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 13, 2018 | Sarah Mervosh

Posted on 12/15/2018 12:18:47 PM PST by artichokegrower

In a bold move to address its affordable-housing crisis and confront a history of racist housing practices, Minneapolis has decided to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that has long perpetuated segregation.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blight; ghetto; redevelopment; sfr; slums; zoning
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To: artichokegrower

The only thing more disturbing than this policy are the comments on the SF Gate article/website. Then again, these are the same people who vote for their own city to turn into a $hithole.


21 posted on 12/15/2018 12:36:56 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2banana
I predict mass emigration to the suburbs and a shrinking tax base.

Yup, followed by an exit tax, ala Chicago.

22 posted on 12/15/2018 12:37:37 PM PST by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Steve_Seattle
You'll have an excuse to buy that up-armored limousine you always wanted for commuting.

And shopping.

And taking the kids to school.

And leaving the house in general.

23 posted on 12/15/2018 12:38:23 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: artichokegrower

Democrat is the Islamic sh&thole party.

Banning single family zoning creates disease and violence.

All you single mothers on welfare, the Democrat Party has brought in your replacements. The party is over.
Share your home with the women beaters and daughter rapers.


24 posted on 12/15/2018 12:39:34 PM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: artichokegrower

Progressives in SoCal have been inflicting the same thing on Orange County. They do it quietly, rezoning established neighborhoods to high density.

The resulting overcrowding makes SoCal cities increasingly undesirable places to live, except to the waves of 3rd world imports that our open borders rulers prefer to American natives.


25 posted on 12/15/2018 12:40:20 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: artichokegrower
We are heading for open sewers and favelas. Nobody cares.


26 posted on 12/15/2018 12:43:49 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

[Single family zoning does not perpetuate segregation. That is total BS.]

Of course it is. But it’s a liberal policy in a liberal city pimped by a liberal rag from another liberal city.

So it all makes sense. To liberals.


27 posted on 12/15/2018 12:44:16 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Zoning is what created this “housing crisis” in the first place, get rid of zoning, gets rid of the need for “affordable housing” because the free market will create the all the housing that is demanded.

What a concept!
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I live one small suburb away from that schitthole Minneapolis.
I live among other nice single family homes with large lots.
If I wanted to live next door to a 50 unit apartment complex I would have moved downtown.

The suburb between me and schittyapolis is rapidly knocking down commercial buildings, single family homes and building huge apartment complexes. The snowflakes and hippies get closer every year. Now they are extending the Somali Trolley ( light rail) to within a half mile of my place so the criminals can get out here much easier.


28 posted on 12/15/2018 12:45:46 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Try telling that to people who live in once-pleasant single family home neighborhoods where high density housing is replacing it. I don’t think that they will find your argument persuasive.


29 posted on 12/15/2018 12:46:34 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I have see many smart hard-working blacks who bought lovely homes in fine neighborhoods.

It is called economic flight. Who wants to live next to a multi group (not family) occupied drug infested gangster rap blaring crap hole when they have the means and smarts to move to a main stream family values neighborhood with access to decent schools.


30 posted on 12/15/2018 12:48:38 PM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Seaplaner

You are forgetting a cardinal rule of socialism, being that rules created by the elite do not apply to the elite.


31 posted on 12/15/2018 12:52:51 PM PST by redfreedom (.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ditto. There’s a minority couple living next door to me and I’m jealous of how well kept their home and yard is. Honest, I’m trying to keep mine up better but... They also have several teenage kids to help with the chores. Hmm, maybe I can hire/lure them away to work on my yard! ;-)


32 posted on 12/15/2018 12:53:31 PM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: BenLurkin

Nope. Someone is connected to local real estate developers who want to put multiple residence housing in. There are going to be lots of $$$$$$ to be made.


33 posted on 12/15/2018 12:55:19 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: artichokegrower

“It’s said now that people will be shorter in height
They can fit twice as many in the same building site
They say it’s alright
Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow
In the interest of humanity, they’ve been told they must go”

- Get ‘em out by Friday (Genesis)


34 posted on 12/15/2018 12:55:59 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Mouton

My son bought a nice house in a decent area from a black man.
He was a great guy. Hard working, moving up the chain at work. He moved his wife and daughters to a really nice house in an area with great schools.

My wife rides the bus on the first leg of her journey home from work with a black woman. This woman told her one day...I gotta move, my neighborhood is being over run by somalians.

That is a story you hear often in the metro area.


35 posted on 12/15/2018 12:57:25 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: artichokegrower

Maybe if cities did not give $500 a day fines for the trash an errant dog ripped people would afford housing.


36 posted on 12/15/2018 1:00:03 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: artichokegrower
Low income subsidized apartment buildings have been such a disaster, for crime and for maintenance, that in many places they've been abandoned.

It's the Elitist plan. Put people in ever-shrinking spaces and make them afraid to leave.

37 posted on 12/15/2018 1:01:16 PM PST by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: artichokegrower

Yep! Tried and true technique to spread crime and pestilent somalis to the suburbs... The moslem invasion continues on all fronts...


38 posted on 12/15/2018 1:02:33 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bizarre. I now live in Jacksonville, Florida - which has a large black middle class and even wealthy population, and a lot of “mixed marriages” as a result, because people marry people who have the same values and goals. And one of those is owning a house.

But the left has a terrible view of black Americans, ranging from condescending to vicious.


39 posted on 12/15/2018 1:04:33 PM PST by livius
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To: artichokegrower

What could go wrong?


40 posted on 12/15/2018 1:04:57 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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