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That's unfortunate that it doesn't go that far. Increasingly, people are willing to call mandatory single family home zoning what it is: economic segregation.
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
That's unfortunate that it doesn't go that far. Increasingly, people are willing to call mandatory single family home zoning what it is: economic segregation.
If, to live in a particular neighborhood, your household has to own or rent a large home on a big plot of land, that's obviously going to keep out the poor and working class from living there. We tend accept this as if it's natural and fine, but is it?
This isn't even a case where you can say, "well, that's just what the market has decided, it's the invisible hand," because it's actually government regulation that's enforcing the segregation here. Why do we want the government to do that again?
I'm not saying that every neighborhood has to allow giant apartment towers, but that they won't even allow fourplexes or townhomes or small apartment buildings that would still allow for a peaceful neighborhood is an issue.