I’m with you on the rezonings—and I agree with focusing on state and federal government. I think the NYC folks last night were saying to do just that, bang on the doors 
for social housing. @ceaweaver’s exchange with LAA’s Atty. Eppler-Epstein on IZ, I thought, brought that out
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And farmers are bad because their business model is exploiting the basic need for you to eat? Admittedly equally simplistic, homeowners wants prop values to go up and that's bad for tenants. I guess, these convos are better in detail rather than in the Twitter abstract.
What? First, yes. Lots of “farmers” are massive corporations and exploit workers, our entire world, and their drive for profit has contributed to a massive ecological crisis?
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Yes, that's all true. But the things that drive those processes are more complicated than the simple fact that someone makes a profit when you buy food. Or someone makes a profit when you buy shelter (or clothes, or whatever human need you insert in the blank).
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To stay on topic, the relationship btwn home values and zoning is really contested and not clear. Upzoning increases the investment value of the land. Downzoning protects what is there. If homeowners only cared abt home values, they would, in many instances, support upZoning
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