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If you're interested in learning why this is wrong, the book The Color of Law is an excellent history of the segregationist laws that made things as they are.
by dublinben 6y ago
If you're interested in learning why this is wrong, the book The Color of Law is an excellent history of the segregationist laws that made things as they are.
https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/ https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/
- refurb 6y agoWhat's the connection between redlining (discriminatory housing policies) and demand for single family homes?
- wonder_er 6y agoI'm not the OP, but... This connection (between redlining and modern Single-family-house-only zoning districts) is the topic of the recommended book. It's difficult to give a high-quality summary of the book. An NPR story with the author of the book might be a better introduction than anything I could write: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528822128/the-color-of-law-details-how-u-s-housing-policies-created-segregation https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528822128/the-color-of-law-de...
- ProfessorLayton 6y agoA lot of what makes single family homes desirable, and thus increase demand for them, have discriminatory roots. For example, absurdly high minimum lot sizes and low coverage ordinances were designed to keep cheaper and denser units from being built as a roundabout way to keep POC from desirable neighborhoods. These ordinances remain on the books today, and much of the Bay Area and its insane housing policies is connected to this.