People that have roots in one place who are priced out of their homes, to move further from their work and family is a negative outcome for the residents of those communities.

Segregating our society, by displacing poor, predominantly people of color out of "up and coming neighborhoods" and concentrating that poverty in already struggling low income communities is harmful to our society as a whole.

Do you understand any of the dynamics of how our society works?

I'll give you a taste of some of the issues with development around Boston and how the system in any state with zoning laws works.

In Boston, there is great public transit, a subway system and commuter rail that needs upgrades but is better than public transit in most american cities.

That subway and commuter rail was designed in the early to mid 1900s and as such, was built to predominantly serve the affluent communities around Boston first, then mid income communities then low income communities. So there are a whole lot of stops in historically wealthy areas like Newton, Brookline, which are filled with single family homes. Meanwhile historically poor areas, Dorchester and Roxbury have far less stops. (if your not familiar with Boston check out a map)

What's happening, is that any area around public transit has skyrocketed in value (probably due to crime rates dropping, it's safe to live basically anywhere in the city). This includes Dorchester and Roxbury, except there is far less service in those areas.

But Dorchester and Roxbury allow higher density housing, so developers are all over it, tearing down buildings and constructing even higher density housing. This stresses local infrastructure, traffic, utilities, etc etc and in the meantime, displaces the historic residents.

Meanwhile over in Newton and Brookline, the light rail stops are surrounded by single family housing. Zoning laws prohibit building higher density housing, so all that happens is that wealthy home owners property value skyrockets. What doesnt happen is more housing being built.

Now, you just have a bunch of young professionals, living a block or two from the light rail in Dorchester and Southie, some rich upright guy in Newton whose home value doubled in 2 decades but he can afford the property taxes so hell live there till he retires in North Carolina, and a displaced family in poverty, that moves to Brockton, perpetuating their cycle of poverty and adding stress to Brocktons struggling school systems and infrastructure issues.