Posted Feb 3, 2014, 5:09 AM
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Karma Police
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: People's Republic of Portland
Posts: 2,138
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The difference between a streetcar helping to densify and strengthen a neighborhood, versus the mass destruction of entire neighborhoods by a freeway ROW or Emanuel Hospital, is like night and day. Nobody gets kicked out of a neighborhood and no buildings are condemned because a streetcar gets built. Worst case is rents and property values increase, but that is happening anyway, in all close-in neighborhoods. All the more reason to vastly increase the supply of inner city housing along corridors like MLK.
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