> Sometimes poor established renters also don't want change.
The way this is framed is so insidious. The "change" that "poor established renters" don't want is more expensive housing that they can't afford that will incentivize their current landlords to raise the rent on the properties they have and also change the local businesses to also raise prices.
On one hand you have working class renters that are fighting a literally existential threat to their existence in the city. For many, if they are evicted, without the controlled, affordable rents they will be forced to move into some existence unknown.
On the other hand you have the top 10-5% ultra wealthy that don't want new apartments because they don't want to see poors near them.
The way this is framed is so insidious. The "change" that "poor established renters" don't want is more expensive housing that they can't afford that will incentivize their current landlords to raise the rent on the properties they have and also change the local businesses to also raise prices.
It's not the same change.