So Haredim don`t have a lot of money. It makes sense that they live in flats at the lower end of the scale. That they want a neighborhood that is quiet on Shabbat.
I remember the bad old days when there weren`t too many cars somebody promoted a Rally down through a neighborhood traditional Jewish neighborhood on Shabbat. Imagine cars whizzing through the road on the day that most people want peace and quiet. The rally was cancelled on that Shabbat. Other than that, why should people whose way of life is Halachic who constitute the majority of the neighborhood, have to suffer the noise of traffic outside.
Then too, what is wrong with "meddling" with prices, the government does it all the time with basic commodities enabling us to buy them at a cost that won`t impoverish us. New York City had, or maybe still has, Rent Controlled apartments--its a matter of social policy that provides a place to live for low income families. |
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