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Of course we support more affordable housing:
It's just what the powers that be should provide.
The arguments made for the low-paid are rousing
Our sympathy. Naturally, we're on their side.

So what do we think of this local development?
The issue is not, as you might have supposed,
About building more houses but—this is important—
The much broader impact. So we are opposed.

For a start it will skew our secure demographic,
Put pressure for places on our local school.
More people with cars will just add to the traffic
That's quite bad already. And then, as a rule

The people who'd occupy this type of dwelling
Are not quite as socially mature as we are.
So where it would lead there is simply no telling.
The crime, the pollution. That's going too far.