"Vance's rhetoric perpetuates the same racism that caused housing to become scarce in the first place. Apartment bans and other exclusionary laws were written to keep people of color out of white neighborhoods."
"Vance's reductive reasoning is also based on a fundamental lie: that the amount of housing we have is fixed and that we must fight against each other for the homes that do exist."
"It's common in shortages to blame, to hate, to pick scapegoats. Relying on the age-old tactic of manufacturing anti-immigrant hate to win votes, Senator Vance brazenly blames a small group of individuals for a problem that exists because of a chronic housing shortage."
"The housing shortage is caused by regressive zoning and byzantine permitting processes that stall or halt housing production altogether."
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