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For housing, would it make sense that an apartment complex inside a Chinese community targets ads on Chinese speakers, who are much more likely to live in there
by educationdata 8y ago
For housing, would it make sense that an apartment complex inside a Chinese community targets ads on Chinese speakers, who are much more likely to live in there? Is this considered as discrimination based on color?
What if the landlord only speaks Chinese?
- SamReidHughes 8y agoOne of the goals of the law is to hinder ethnic ghettoization like that.
- adrenalinelol 8y agoAn ethnically homogenous area doesn't always imply it's a ghetto though?
- vorpalhex 8y agoThe original meaning of "ghetto" was to be ethnically homogenous, it gained the additional meaning of being ramshackle or of poor condition.
- weberc2 8y agoWhy should it be the goal of the law to hinder prosperous but ethnically homogenous areas? Personally I like my diverse neighborhood, but I also like that Chinatown is just down the street.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThe answer is obviously contingent on your values and maybe your prediction of sociological outcomes.
- ABCLAW 8y agoBecause the reality of racial restriction covenants and redlining practices is that they weren't used to develop great locales; they were used to systemically exclude people of undesired races who otherwise had the means to live in said area. This doesn't mean that ethic areas just melt away, though. Chinatown can remain Chinatown on the basis that they value being close to Chinese community centres and Chinese grocery stores more than the average resident, meaning they're willing to pay more and price out other people to live there. They can't remain Chinatown by literally refusing to rent to someone because they're black, though. This allows ethic areas to remain if they provide a benefit to their community, but melt away to redistribute real-estate resources more efficiently if they don't.
- deadmik3 8y agoisn't the point of things like rent control and affordable housing to specifically prevent people from paying more and pricing out people who want to live there?
- vorpalhex 8y agoIt comes down to this issue of whether or not more housing is available. In New York, there's effectively a finite cap on housing, so you can't just say "well buy somewhere else". Pricing caps and assistance programs make sense there, but those also come with less ability to control your neighborhood. When there's tons of cheap housing available, then having small areas with expensive pricing isn't per se a problem (but could be an issue in context, say a small midwestern town excluding black people from buying houses by over-inflating prices.)
- ua16s1 8y ago1) Has the law worked thus far? 2) What's wrong with ghettoisation? Wouldn't it help keep problematic people isolated, thus increasing security in the rest of the city, which is a net gain for everybody?
- matz1 8y agoNothing to do with right or wrong. Like with any other law, That law exist because the people who oppose either didn't do anything or didn't fight hard enough to oppose it.
- mjburgess 8y ago"problematic people" don't all have the same skin colour. You're presuming a ghetto is a just prison, rather, its an unjust prison.
- chillacy 8y agoIt seems to have worked okay for Singapore
- pessimizer 8y agoIt's important to notice that this is as pure as racism gets. I mean, why shouldn't you be able to ethnically cleanse a place if the landlords prefer a white clientele?
- AlexB138 8y agoIt's racist to advertise to the group that is most likely to buy your product? And advertising is equivalent to ethnic cleansing? This hyperbole is ridiculous.