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,200 Black-owned homes.42 Now the white crowd had gathered for Sweet himself. Ever since 1917, when the Supreme Court had struck down racially restrictive zoning ordinances like the one Baldwin fought in St. Louis, white residents had sought new ways to keep Black people from living in their midst. Black

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previous NAACP legal fights in the Arkansas peonage case and the Sweet case in Detroit. He rehearsed earlier litigations like the successful challenge to racially restrictive zoning in Louisville and the organization’s winning case against whites-only Texas primary elections in the 1927 Supreme Court decision Nixon v. Herndon. In the

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by M. Nolan Gray · 20 Jun 2022 · 252pp · 66,183 words

a variance to bypass the front setback rules.14 In theory, variances were supposed to be used only for outlier cases. In practice, given how restrictive zoning has become, many major cities process hundreds of variance applications per year.15 The second mechanism, a special permit, allows a specific development to depart

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is built, and where it is built at all, the housing is kept prohibitively expensive by unnecessary mandates and a costly permitting process.9 With restrictive zoning already on the books in those cities that remain somewhat affordable—usually thanks to an increasingly scarce supply of undeveloped land—the housing affordability crisis

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mortgage. The decision to move to Orlando is obvious when you factor in San Jose’s housing shortage. While Americans used to move to prosperity, restrictive zoning perversely provides Americans with clear incentives to avoid those places where they could make the largest contributions to the economy.21 This has serious implications

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towns that have undertaken policies like ending single-family zoning or dropping minimum lot sizes have been the exception. In most municipalities, the politics underlying restrictive zoning—namely, homeowner resistance to change—is rock solid, particularly among the most restrictive municipalities. The reality is that it will take oversight from higher levels

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should the federal government pay for the construction of new transit in municipalities that will use zoning to block any and all transit-oriented development? Restrictive zoning persists in large part because its political coalition at the local level—typically vocal minorities of incumbent property owners—is rock solid, particularly in the

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exploded in the United States, now numbering more than 10,000 brewers nationwide. They are emblematic of the smaller enterprises that can run up against restrictive zoning rules. Although these businesses do not operate like such industrial megabrewers as Budweiser or Coors, zoning often treats them the same, lumping all manufacturers into

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my parents, I’ve stopped being surprised at the new townhouses and small-scale residential infill within the Loop. West U, meanwhile, has maintained its restrictive zoning, including minimum lot-size requirements of 8,250 square feet—far smaller than Connecticut’s football field but almost six times as large as Houston

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restrictions, the number of housing units in West U has stagnated, barely increasing in the past half-century. This is consistent with economists’ finding that restrictive zoning and other land use constraints dampen production. And because people want to live in new homes in West U but lack land on which to

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Institute found that Connecticut suburbs and towns had more zoning constraints on multifamily housing than the state’s larger cities, and that areas with less restrictive zoning had higher concentrations of low-income, Black, Hispanic, and other residents of color. Segregation is not just an urban-suburban issue; it is an issue

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by Sugrue, Thomas J.

suburbs or neighborhoods on the periphery of cities where they prevented black movement into their communities with federally sanctioned redlining practices, real estate steering, and restrictive zoning laws.85 Racial violence had far-reaching effects in the city. It hardened definitions of white and black identities, objectifying them by plotting them on

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the first entrepreneurs to seize the opportunity was the ice cream man. In part, the ice cream truck’s raison d’être was derived from restrictive zoning: neighborhoods of homes, parks, and playgrounds were often not that close to a place you could buy ice cream. Whether the truck showed up to

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in the Village; he and his father had lived near their store in Jackson Heights. But the new spatial geography of American life, defined by restrictive zoning, had separated these aspects of his life. David still lived in Queens, and the commutes were grinding. He suffered a heart attack and got out

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. The supply of housing in Berkeley now lags far behind demand, as rising prices force out residents and homelessness surges. Cheney had assured Californians that restrictive zoning could create garden cities filled with affordable homes for ordinary workers. In fact, it created garden cities and then priced workers right out of them

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time. If growth was the problem, then local sovereignty was the solution. The Raiders had spent enough time studying California to appreciate how much damage restrictive zoning was already inflicting on the state. The report traced concentrated poverty and racial segregation to the “snob zoning” of wealthy communities. “Land policies play perhaps

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-trod path to prosperity for millions of others. American mobility began to decline around 1970, a fifty-year slide that has not yet ended. Increasingly restrictive zoning rules have played a key role in that decline. Research by the economists Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag helps define the problem. As land-use

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. And those same patterns are also worsening global warming. Every day, it seems, researchers add more entries to the dismal list of harms caused by restrictive zoning. The freedom to move promised Americans the right to choose a community, and to stay there, but it also promised the right to leave, to

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