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As Kahlenberg points out, homeowners have legitimate concerns about the risk of eroding property values, heightened congestion and noise, and overtaxed city services.
Kahlenberg argues, however, that we have overindexed on protecting existing homeowners and failed to strike a balance between their needs and those of neighbors who would like to move to our towns. He points out that enacting missing-middle local policies has been shown to have many more upsides, including providing housing for a greater range of family incomes, with few of the most feared downsides (housing value drops, congestion, etc.) materializing.
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