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I highly recommend reading the book. Suburbia was made more expensive by design through zoning (high minimum lot sizes etc) to keep out PoC. Many of these zonin
by ProfessorLayton 5y ago
I highly recommend reading the book. Suburbia was made more expensive by design through zoning (high minimum lot sizes etc) to keep out PoC. Many of these zoning rules are still in place, which is contributing to wealth inequality, and the current housing “shortage” — which is mostly artificial through restrictive zoning.
One of the largest indicators of educational attainment is family wealth, and guess where much of that wealth comes from? Housing.
What you’re describing is a symptom of the larger problems brought on by racist policies this book describes in detail.
- tiahura 5y agoYou’re applying 2022 thinking to a process from the 40s and 50s. While racially restrictive covenants and deeds certainly were a thing, at the time these subdivisions were created, the primary goal was to keep riffraff out. In many (most?) of these communities, the idea that blacks would be moving in was about as big of a concern as Eskimos. The notion that 1/2 acre lot with 100ft setback ordinances were racially motivated is silly.