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they are meeting the needs of corporations -- real estate developers -- and IGNORING residents. That's generally a Republican type of behavior
Most leading Democratic politicians recognize that building more housing supply is a good thing: “the reason why people are on the streets isn’t just some elusive housing or market phenomenon. It’s because we’ve chosen not to build.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And yes, all business ventures are ultimately "about making money." That doesn't mean that they don't also serve a human need: restaurants and groceries and farms and hospitals and whatnot all make money serving human needs, and so do developers.
Letting people make money by building houses isn't "generally a Republican type of behavior," any more than letting people make money by growing food. It's just... letting other people make a living.
Oh, and then there's this: "a relentless push for more high-density housing in single-family residential neighborhoods, has become the mainstream goal of the left" - Ben Carson & Donald Trump in "We'll Protect America's Suburbs," WSJ, 8/16/2020
It does not MATTER if "every single one of them is a die-hard Democrat."
I AM A DIE-HARD DEMOCRAT, and I believe NO ONE SHOULD VOTE for Baldwin, Melton, Knight, and Forte. It is about THEIR ACTIONS. THEIR ACTIONS are totally NOT Democrat-like. Instead, they are meeting the needs of corporations -- real estate developers -- and IGNORING residents. That's generally a Republican type of behavior. So for this particular election, voting "straight-party" doesn't work -- at all. It's not an option. This municipal election is not built that way.
Allowing development, especially dense development, isn’t un-democrat-like.
a relentless push for more high-density housing in single-family residential neighborhoods
Well, yes, some folks in Raleigh (and many in City Hall) would like to do exactly that. Fortunately for the single-family home owner, most neighborhoods OTB have restrictive covenants on the properties that the City cannot override.
As for replacing failing strip shopping centers with apartment complexes, I'm fine with that.
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