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How NIMBYs weaponize historic districts

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April 14, 2023

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Marking a building as historic can make a lot of sense, but it gets more complicated when cities try to mark an entire district as historic. And sometimes historic districts can be created not for the preservation of history, but for the preservation of demographics and property values.

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