Whitey Ford
12-16-2018, 11:51 PM
In the end, Minneapolis will probably resemble Chicago or some other niggertown where crime, poverty and drug use run rampant.
Minneapolis, tackling housing crisis and inequity, votes to end single-family zoning (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Minneapolis-Tackling-Housing-Crisis-and-13463911.php)
In a bold move to address its affordable-housing crisis and confront a history of racist housing practices, Minneapolis has decided to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that has long perpetuated segregation.
"...perpetuated segregation."
“Minneapolis is not alone in being a city with a history of intentional segregation,” Mayor Jacob Frey said in an interview this week. “I’m hopeful that we’re not alone in undoing it.”
How zoning is a proxy for race
Single-family neighborhoods rose to prominence across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1917 that zoning based on race was unconstitutional.
“Single-family zoning became basically the only option to try to maintain both race and class segregation,” said Jessica Trounstine, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Merced, who has studied segregation.
In addition, generations of racial disparities in wealth accumulation, exacerbated by federally backed lending practices that discriminated against African-Americans, meant that most homeowners were white. “So if you make a particular part of the city homeowners only, then you essentially make that neighborhood restricted to whites,” Trounstine said.
Minneapolis truly is f**ked.
Minneapolis, tackling housing crisis and inequity, votes to end single-family zoning (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Minneapolis-Tackling-Housing-Crisis-and-13463911.php)
In a bold move to address its affordable-housing crisis and confront a history of racist housing practices, Minneapolis has decided to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that has long perpetuated segregation.
"...perpetuated segregation."
“Minneapolis is not alone in being a city with a history of intentional segregation,” Mayor Jacob Frey said in an interview this week. “I’m hopeful that we’re not alone in undoing it.”
How zoning is a proxy for race
Single-family neighborhoods rose to prominence across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1917 that zoning based on race was unconstitutional.
“Single-family zoning became basically the only option to try to maintain both race and class segregation,” said Jessica Trounstine, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Merced, who has studied segregation.
In addition, generations of racial disparities in wealth accumulation, exacerbated by federally backed lending practices that discriminated against African-Americans, meant that most homeowners were white. “So if you make a particular part of the city homeowners only, then you essentially make that neighborhood restricted to whites,” Trounstine said.
Minneapolis truly is f**ked.