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Catching up on a lot of RSS reading...
A longish article on residential hotels, flophouses, and microapartments, and how American homelessness is rooted in the banning of cheap small places to live. Banning which in turn is rooted more in racism (anti-Chinese and other) than in true safety or welfare concerns. Or in classism, or false ideas about disease spread, or in ubiquitous parking requirements (a lot of these homes are *smaller* than the space needed to park a car.)
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/sros_flophouses_microapartments_smart_cities_are_finally_allowing_the_right.html
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speaking of meritocracy and anti-Chinese racism, white Americans favor grade and test based college admission until told Asians do better under that
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/13/white_people_s_meritocracy_hypocrisy.html
A longish article on residential hotels, flophouses, and microapartments, and how American homelessness is rooted in the banning of cheap small places to live. Banning which in turn is rooted more in racism (anti-Chinese and other) than in true safety or welfare concerns. Or in classism, or false ideas about disease spread, or in ubiquitous parking requirements (a lot of these homes are *smaller* than the space needed to park a car.)
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/sros_flophouses_microapartments_smart_cities_are_finally_allowing_the_right.html
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speaking of meritocracy and anti-Chinese racism, white Americans favor grade and test based college admission until told Asians do better under that
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/13/white_people_s_meritocracy_hypocrisy.html