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Gee, it took so long to sequester them into their own areas of welfare, warlords, violence, crime, sloth, drug use, prostitution and dirt ditch, incontinent reproduction. We certainly wouldn't want to hurt their feelings by not giving them subsidized housing in fertile areas of crime expansion and rapid access to transportation corridors used by actual working people.

Don't be so cryptic. The thesis of the article can be summarized as follows: (some) poor people resisted SB827 because they feared, rightly or wrongly, that the bill would cause their low-rent neighborhoods along transit lines to become high-rent and high-cost neighborhoods.

SB827 is/was the proposed law that would enable easy permitting of construction of high-rise residences near transit corridors, and to override zoning local zoning laws that otherwise would block such construction.