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People born and raised in Suffolk County, N.Y., complain about dozens of people living in single-family homes; immigrants complain that they are victimized by locals.

An Ecuadorean day laborer was murdered last year, allegedly by teenagers who said they regularly looked for immigrants to bash.

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While I'm on the subject of duplexes, Austin has always struck me as having an unusually large number of duplexes.  I finally got around to looking up the numbers.  Duplex units make up 5.3% of Austin's housing stock.  By comparison, they make up just 1.8% of Houston's stock, 1.7% of Dallas's stock, and 2.2% of San Antonio's stock.*  Austin thus has more than three times as many duplexes as Houston or Dallas (relative to the total housing stock), and more than twice as many as San Antonio.

Why?

I'm no

Allandale along with several other neighborhoods were recently added tot he City's Restricted Parking Area Map which "prohibits the parking of motorized vehicles in the front and side yard of single-family residences, except in a driveway or paved parking space."...