This isn’t my area of expertise, but I feel like it also relates to how they view high-density affordable public housing as a magnet for misery and *what specifically they think is wrong* with it. And I think this infects how they feel about all apartment buildings.
Someone should tell him about the brothel in a zoned suburban neighborhood in my area (frequented by cops, of course) that made the news when it was busted a few years ago...
OK, good, so I'm not the only one who thought that was a weird rhetorical move. I don't think restrictive zoning codes are the only thing preventing the establishment of a brothel next door to every grade school, actually!
A significant housing development in Cupertino was curtailed into long delays and reduction partially because of fears (I am not joking) that it would become a magnet for trafficking the city’s young women into prostitution to service Apple employees. An elected official stated this.
I also hear a lot of anti-capitalist stuff regarding apartments, because apartments always have LANDLORDS. A lot of "you will rent everything and own nothing" rhetoric.
It works fine in other countries. I saw many building in Hong Kong and Japan that might be considered "projects" in America, but were filled with people that were probably considered middle class.
It's when you stuff them full of people who are purposely being held back that it is a problem.
