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by VintageCool 3y ago
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/06/17/exclusionary-zoning-its-effect-on-racial-discrimination-in-the-housing-market/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/06/17/...
Some of the housing regulations were legitimately put in place for safety reasons to protect people. Others were put in place to keep black and Asian people out. Especially after government initiatives to prevent discrimination in housing like the 1968 Fair Housing Act, efforts to keep out minorities became cloaked in the garb of "public safety", and minority-excluding regulations were sanitized into affordability-excluding regulations.
- tomcar288 3y agobut it's a lot more than that. Blue cities are by far the worst offenders at anti-housing regulations. part of it must be that people are funadamentally extremely conservative when it comes to housing.
- screye 3y agoThis is important to highlight. The worst issues show up in deep blue cities. SF is the worst offender. It's more so a generation issue than a red-blue issue. Urbanism is bipartisan.