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>Suburban single-family homes are specifically an elitist policy. How so?
by JaimeThompson 4y ago
>Suburban single-family homes are specifically an elitist policy.
How so?
- kingkawn 4y agoFalse constrain on housing supply despite population boom causes housing prices to rise incredibly, an increase entirely subsidized by the desperation of the working poor to find somewhere affordable to live.
- masklinn 4y agoAnd additional costs of means of transportation in order to be able to live there, because of exclusionary single-family zoning, residential areas are wastelands of nothing, essentially requiring a car per adult individual. This also significantly constrains people with mobility issues.
- belligeront 4y agoThe origins of zoning were to exclude black, Chinese, and jewish workers and residents from white neighborhoods. https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-sin... Today, they continue to be used to exclude poorer residents from richer neighborhoods through mechanisms like minimum lot sizes (housing is much more expensive if you require 10000 sqft lots, etc.) and prohibitions of multi-family dwellings (which make housing cheaper by allowing multiple households to split the cost of land).
- JaimeThompson 4y agoHe didn't say zoning, he said homes so I was asking them why a single family home was elitist.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoits clearly more expensive than the alternative. it excluded poorer people from the area
- bobthepanda 4y agoThe single family home zoning has the stuff like the minumum lot size and prohibitions on lot splitting or multiple homes on the same lot, which essentially sets a floor price to qualify for living there. And a minimum price will lead to minimum salary requirements for a mortgage, effectively locking out those below that income, hence elitism.
- refurb 4y agoThat doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t have to be a suburb to exclude non-whites. It could be an apartment building.
- Pxtl 4y agoEver seen a zoning consultation meeting to build multi-family residences in a single family detached neighborhood? The objections are wholly classist worries about What Kind of People are going to be living there.
- zip1234 4y agoMy city is holding public hearings about a new apartment development. People are outraged because it might bring in poor people.