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"Most of us who have moved in do not look like the people who have moved out. Up the street, meanwhile, congregants of a black baptist church drive in every Sunday from other parts of town, dressed to the nines while the neighborhood’s newer residents trudge by in sweatpants on their way to grab coffee from the vegan café—raw cane sugar with a splash of oat milk, please."

Vegan? Gross. You sound like you're part of the problem. :p

For real though, unless Austin and other cities remove the regulations that prevent increased density, the type of dislocation and redevelopment you've described are inevitable. Put another way, I doubt the house you moved into would even have been built if the zoning reforms you're advocating were put in place.

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Yes, exactly. The market will provide what zoning allows, and a world of McMansions and vegan cafes (ha!) is what it has heretofore allowed!

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