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The zoning makes a lot of sense. The place where white people live is zoned to have nice, single-family houses with a huge yard that takes up a ton of space and
by alexb_ 3y ago
The zoning makes a lot of sense. The place where white people live is zoned to have nice, single-family houses with a huge yard that takes up a ton of space and is given outsized say in local politics. The place where black people live is zoned to be as underfunded and crowded as possible on the other side of the highway.
Mission accomplished for the local governments who decided how zoning should work.
- davidw 3y agoThis is sarcastic, but it's very much how it works in a lot of places, and it no accident. This book is a nice deep dive into how that came about: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-d-kahlenberg/excluded/9781541701465/?lens=publicaffairs https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-d-kahlenber...
- alexb_ 3y agoI'm being "sarcastic" in that I completely agree with you.
- shiroiuma 3y agoWhy is this modded down? It's absolutely the truth. The local governments here are doing exactly what their (more affluent and politically connected) constituents are demanding of them.
- Schiendelman 3y agoThere’s a growing argument that most of the things we think zoning is protecting us from, it isn’t really necessary for, and that without those risks there’s no justification for government to have the power at all.