[mod.politics] Property values

kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/20/86)

    From: fagin%ji@berkeley.edu (Barry S. Fagin)

    Your problem is that your confusing a drop in your property value
    with actual damage.  One is a violation of your rights,
    while the other is the result of other people's voluntary choices.

  Exactly.  Some say that having blacks move in next door lowers
property values.  If so, should a person have the right to prevent his
neighbor from selling or renting his house to blacks?
                                                              ...Keith

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