Minneapolis Appealing Court Ruling That Halted 2040 Plan
Minneapolis Appealing Court Ruling That Halted 2040 Plan
www.stoppopulationdecline.org
Minneapolis Appealing Court Ruling That Halted 2040 Plan
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The article is weak and just a bunch of bullets points without much info. But that website is pretty weird. The about page is full of concern about demographic changes, dog whistles about only poor people procreating, and immigration being concerning. Some decent points about healthcare privatization though. Pretty sus overall.
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I seen this style on a few other sites, and where did you see those dog whistles becuase from the text it talks about how people can't afford kids and thats a problem?
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I'm going to use "=" as a shorthand that means what the statements are dog whistling. These are statements from their about page
Declining fertility rates more prominently among the affluent = the poor shouldn't be reproducing, and we should encourage only rich babies (this one sounds alot like those silicon valley pronatalists). Also "affluent" is usually code for white.
Forced migration and places being "unable to take care of their own" = anti-immigrant, isolationism.
Demographic changes = tied closely to the last one, but typically also related to domestic racism and almost always bigoted against nonwhite people. Never seen someone worry about demographic changes without a racial element.
NIMBY regulations = deregulate housing market and allow developers to build whatever. Given all the other things and the fact they don't mention affordability makes me think they just want to make developers rich.
The interesting thing here is they mention austerity and privatization a couple times. These are typically left wing critiques. So honestly it's pretty confused. It's possible it's left wing trying to propagandize to the right. Could be vise versa. Seeing population decline (especially since it's mostly majority white nations that have declining populations) as a bad thing gives me fascist impressions.
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Is this good or bad?
If you're a developer, it's definitely bad. I'm not sure how much of the housing was supposed to be for mid to low income so I'm not sure if it's bad for housing as well. The way the article is written, they call everyone nimbys that don't want to build luxury homes that might sit empty so I'm thinking that the housing wasn't for the mid to low income people. I could be corrected though.
Minneapolis is always interesting because it's so close to St. Paul, how do they mingle these housing laws?
Even if building exclusively "luxury apartments", it's going to help the housing market by upping total supply and pushing older apartments to lower income tenants.
Except that luxury housing and Single Family houses is still being built, mid income housing is what’s on pause in Minneapolis