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The elephant in the room is that much of the US, SF Bay Area included, is still reeling hard from restrictive zoning laws that were extremely racially motivated
by ProfessorLayton 9y ago
The elephant in the room is that much of the US, SF Bay Area included, is still reeling hard from restrictive zoning laws that were extremely racially motivated.
Minimum lot sizes, height restrictions, R1/R2 designations et al. were intentionally written into zoning laws so that PoC could not afford to move into primarily white neighborhoods [1].
It might sound like a random tangent, but many of these zoning laws are in the books today, and are the ones used by NIMBYs to restrict new developments in their town.
[1] Extensively covered in the book The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- nolepointer 9y agoWell, to be fair, neighborhoods don't typically go down hill when white families move in ...
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- dang 9y agoSince we just warned you and you don't seem interested in using this site as intended (i.e. for thoughtful conversation, not political flamebait), we've banned this account.
- mc32 9y agoBut how do you explain the issue of NIMBYism not being as big an impediment in Texas or Nevada, you know, where one might expect those motives to be the same or maybe more prevalent?
- yellowapple 9y agoLand is cheaper, so those sorts of laws aren't as big of a factor. That's starting to no longer be the case in Nevada if you're in Reno or Vegas, since Californians (myself included) fleeing California's high cost of living are driving up real estate prices (the rest of Nevada is fine for now AFAICT; just the cities that are an issue).
- ubernostrum 9y agoIt depends on whether you see all the impediments that are actually present. Many of them are invisible to people who are white and/or affluent, since they never affect such people and most such people don't have enough close ties to people sufficiently different from themselves to hear firsthand stories.