Zoning rules are awesome tools, for improving your own situation at the uncompensated expense of others.
And what decent person would ever want to object, if 95% of the victims are both "not like us", and members of lower classes?
And what decent person would ever want to object, if 95% of the victims are both "not like us", and members of lower classes?
One moment you allow multiple unrelated people to share a house.
Next moment they're living 5 to a room and there are 8 cars parked in their front yard.
My peeve is about banning of growing food in your front yard in many states. So much available land going waste growing grass (that is not even fed to cows).
Next moment, you've got a rat infestation living 5 to a burrow and 8 of them are moving into your house.
My pet peeve is yet some other thing that might have downsides.
Which is why it's easy to get everyone together and ban backyard chickens because the whole town is sick of Bob's fucking rooster - but much harder to get them to unban them decades later.
Being from a community where the pro-nationalist movement has really taken hold, that sounds like a single, related family. Why do you give them special treatment?
So? Not your yard, not your business.
>Next moment they're living 5 to a room and there are 8 cars parked in their front yard.
Is it on their property? If so not my problem.
Having principals and sticking to them makes reasoning about the subjects so easy.
Want to only allow single-family residences?
Fine, but pay the city taxes on that privilege. Then use those funds to offset the negative externality.
Good luck.
Major urban centers have enough renters to form a voting bloc, and this is where such a policy could be useful to increase housing supply.
Maybe, but voting would only matter if there was a referendum, which is highly unlikely for something that isn't challenging fundamental rights. Taxes are easily repealed if the people realize they made a mistake. It not need that kind of level of agreement.
What does matter is having time to participate in democracy. It very well may be that in theory the renting crowd have a loud enough voice to be heard, but in practice do they really have the time/the feeling of having enough time to actually do it? Statistically, renters are lower income and tend to struggle to make ends meet. While making themselves heard would be beneficial, often they face other pressures, like needing to go to work, instead that diminish their ability to carry through with it.
Come on - zoning rules aren't some tool of repression. Sometimes they can be, but that isn't their raison d'etre.