…than myself are inferior and undesirable people or at the least undesirable neighbors, is perhaps a bigger factor than racism today in influencing local land use politics. But a new…
…and at the very least, undesirable neighbors. [Sometimes people who make a lot more money than we do are considered undesirable neighbors, too! They drive up prices.] I think that…
…is that a lot of land use law in our country is based on a not very Christian concept of who are ‘undesirable neighbors’. The event that first triggered my…
…perceived as less ‘deserving’ than recipients of social insurance. Those who make less money than we do are seen as undesirable people and undesirable neighbors and should be excluded by…
…be inferior people, or at least undesirable neighbors, they see to it that housing regulations are made to make it difficult for people below a certain income to reside in…
It is often believed that poorer people are worse behaved and therefore undesirable neighbors; and certainly enough, certain pathological behaviors are more common in the poor communities. This is used…
…so now.] What I call ‘incomism’, the belief that the less affluent are inferior people or at the very least undesirable neighbors, still drives a lot of local political behavior….
…more or less likely to do certain things? Or be desirable or undesirable neighbors, to be welcomed or excluded by local public policy? I have written recently about how my…
…of simple social snobbery, not race, yet they still affect less affluent racial groups more. The belief that the less affluent are undesirable neighbors has been a motive for local…
…morally inferior, or at least undesirable neighbors, I call Incomism. I use this term instead of Classism because I believe that social classes are more a cultural phenomenon than an…