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Comment by LargeWu

1 day ago

"Upzoning increases land value. Developers build profitable market rate houses there"

Unless you are upzoning ONLY in low-income neighborhoods, this doesn't add up. The assumption is that upzoning makes development more attractive. But this would apply to the entire city, and would therefore increase housing supply outside those low-income neighborhoods as well, which actually reduces the propensity for displacement.