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Twilight Sparkle's avatar

One of the problems with reflexive anti-developmentism is that it doesn't differentiate between, say, a low rise apartment building in a walkable neighborhood that fights sprawl and pollution and a McMansion in a new exurban subdivision that was built on former forest and creates a lot of environmental damage and pollution. It tends to just try to stop all development in the name of supposedly preserving the community for "actual residents", which creates a housing crisis that pushes out poor and disadvantaged people, both long timers and transplants.

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Ifeoma Ozoma's avatar

This is *so* good. Thank you for writing it. As a New Mexican, I’m just glad this isn’t the part of the Mountain West that Sheridan decided to tell these tales about. Yeesh.

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