“The Rhetorical Weapons of Liberal Nimbyism”

New Yorkers out on the street

Here’s an interesting story in the liberal New Republic about a successful effort by Upper West Side residents in NYC to have homeless men relocated from a city-owned hotel in that neighborhood. The author writes, “Slippery terms like neighborhood and community are quietly and expertly carved out to exclude the people—nonwhite or ill or poor—who reduce property values.”