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ICE warehouses deserve a response of not just NIMBY but NIABY (Not in ANYONE'S Back Yard)

I was telling an activist that if NIMBY can prevent good things (SROs, subsidized housing, rehab facilities) from being built because community after community says “build it somewhere else” and tosses it around like a beach ball until people give up, it can prevent bad things, too.

ICE having to attend nine hour long community input sessions and be lectured on neighborhood character is going to be something

They will bulldoze through the process and ignore court orders in a way that will make pro-housing activists confused by their own envy.

I mean, if we want to block the construction of something using arcane rules and the power of pure upper middle class spite, there’s nobody more capable. They’ve been training for this for years. It’s like Stalin joining the Allies.