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Long Island Town of Huntington Says No to More Apartments: At a heated town meeting, a resident warned “pedophiles or criminals” would move into new housing (nysfocus.com)

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[–] Fluffysquash@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My in laws are the same way, they live in what was a rural suburb of a major metropolitan area. They are convinced that apartments will lower their property value despite that being statistically the opposite of what happens. They are msnbc liberals and don’t see how “property values” is just a nice way of saying you don’t want minorities around. Yet, they get mad when there is no one to work at the services they need.

Edit: didn’t realize this was on beehaw, guess I’ll just talk to myself over here because beehaw fucking sucks

[–] omenmis 1 points 1 year ago

we can see your comment and comment back because lemmy.ml federates with beehaw.

i love nimbys. block anything that improves qol because property values. recently nimbys tried to fight an in progress light rail extension due to crime concerns and now their entire city probably wont get a rail connection until they give up.