Yes… That’s what NIMBYism is.
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AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 months agoObviously people are upset because public space is being taken away for this.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No NIMBYs only care about property values. That’s not what this is.
thedevisinthedetails@programming.dev 10 months ago
NIMBYs care about all sorts of things and are staunchly against progress and housing the young and poor alike. This is entirely NIMBYism dressed up in progressive aesthetics and language.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Or, and this might be difficult to follow, make one of the adjacent buildings into homes and keep the park too?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Berkeley is a public school. They’re building government housing. But, it doesn’t matter to the groups who see outrage as a virtue and stall the progress they neverendingly clamor for.