California “Progressives” vs. New Affordable Housing Project | Ben Meets America

This week, Ben goes to his local city council meeting in West Hollywood, as the community weighs in on a new affordable housing development being proposed in their neighborhood. Nearly to a person, the NIMBYs in attendance insisted they are ardent supporters of affordable housing. Just “not at the expense,” as one man advised, “of the quality of the people living in the neighborhood.”

“Ben Meets America!” chronicles one journalist’s attempt to understand the American electorate. It’s a political series for the politically homeless—and an antidote to the idea that we live in a hyper-polarized society destined to hate one another.

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