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No, they obviously are not allowed to decide that at all, unless you think communities can decide that no Asians may buy houses within their borders.

• rootusrootus 4y ago
  That's disingenuous, race is a protected class. High density housing isn't. Sometimes we seem to like the idea of democracy, sometimes we don't. That's the tension here.
  • tptacek 4y ago
    High density housing isn't protected because we choose not to protect it. But that's changing, thankfully.
  • jdminhbg 4y ago
    How is it disingenuous? OP asserted that communities are "allowed to decide how they are composed," and they obviously are not. Which decisions we allow communities to make is the entire question.
    • rootusrootus 4y ago
      Protected classes are already protected, so it is absolutely disingenuous to try and suggest that if we allow communities to have a say in their own composition we would have to allow them to discriminate based on race.