Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu From: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Property values Message-ID: <12232189621.14.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 22:24:26 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12232189621.14.MCGREW Posted: Tue Aug 19 22:24:26 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 23:20:31 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 13 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu 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 -------