Editing Drawbridge mentality (section)

== Examples ==

=== Eli Home in Anaheim Hills, California ===
Eli Home, a nonprofit organisation founded in the 1980s which maintains [[Homeless shelter|homeless shelters]] for abused children, tried to expand to [[Anaheim Hills]] in 1994. The organisation was endorsed and praised by former United States presidents [[George W. Bush]] and [[Bill Clinton]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Martin |date=1994-04-25 |title=Anaheim: Clinton Joins Bush in Honoring Eli Home |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-25-me-50209-story.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> but Anaheim Hills community residents were strongly opposed to the decision, and tried to stop the development. The [[NIMBY|Not in My Back Yard]] attitude was the main reasoning for the opposition, suggesting that the shelter will increase crime rates and make neighborhoods less friendly.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Martin |date=1994-12-12 |title=Rod Carew Becomes Champion for the Abused |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-12-me-8068-story.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The development was nonetheless approved by the council and later led to an exodus of Anaheim Hills residents. Since then, Eli Home as an organisation claims to serve over 1,000 abused children and their families annually,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Eli Home for Abused Children – Anaheim, Ca |url=https://elihome.org/ |access-date=2023-05-14 |language=en-US}}</ref> and also expanded services to drug rehabilitation, although the organisation had low donations in the decades since.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ABC7 |title=Eli Home in Anaheim Hills could shut down without donation |url=https://abc7.com/archive/8900233/ |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=ABC7 Los Angeles |language=en}}</ref>

=== Acton, Massachusetts ===
In 2020, the Housing Production Plan for [[Acton, Massachusetts]] was released by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, which detailed the methods to achieve at least 10% of its housing be designated 'affordable' as according to legislation set in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chapter 40 B Housing Production Plan {{!}} Mass.gov |url=https://www.mass.gov/service-details/chapter-40-b-housing-production-plan |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=www.mass.gov |language=en}}</ref> Boston, which Acton is a suburb of, experiences significant racial disparity due to [[redlining]], an issue reported to have gradually increased since the late 1960s. Negative racial stereotypes have been used to justify these redlining practices, but in the case of Acton it is believed these policies are mainly motivated by "the indifference of average citizens" and that the drawbridge mentality is considered a rational response to maintain property value. In this perspective, it is unclear whether the drawbridge mentality was an unintended effect of maintaining property value or nature preservation, or if isolating the community from immigrants was the primary goal.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Raman |first1=Anjali |last2=Cheng |first2=Michael |last3=Vijay |first3=Neha |last4=Dayal |first4=Prisha |date=2020 |title=The Drawbridge Mentality—Exclusion and Escapism in Acton, Massachusetts |url=https://www.thespectrumabrhs.com/housing.html |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=The Spectrum}}</ref>