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So-called “inclusionary zoning” is an attempt to outsource a key state responsibility—providing subsidized housing to poor people—to private for-profit actors so the state does not have to raise and spend tax money. It is profoundly neoliberal policy.

This would carry more weight with me if anti-inclusion voices lobbied hard for federal/state/municipal funding, but they seem to be MIA in that arena. So forgive me for saying, anti-IZ = pro-exclusion, anti-working class, anti-renter.

Gentrification is inevitable but we can, and should, mitigate its worst negative impacts on the lives of working people, rather than advocating for the rich only.