It's pretty useful to point out the contradiction between progressivism and the embrace of literal segregation laws that cause sprawl, cause traffic, and hurt o

It's pretty useful to point out the contradiction between progressivism and the embrace of literal segregation laws that cause sprawl, cause traffic, and hurt our environment. The prevailing concern about property values during America's urbanization was the arrival of black families. Once racial restrictions were overturned, the best "race-neutral" tool to protect property values was just to exclude cheaper homes from neighborhoods and rely on economic disparities to segregate for you. That is what exclusionary zoning is. You can make neighborhoods expensive on purpose by zoning for fewer people than want to live in a neighborhood so only the richest can live there. It was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1975. It's time to eliminate it near jobs. Anyone who claims to care about affordability while supporting laws that make their neighborhood expensive on purpose is full of poop.