#Zoning

Alexander Ferrer

There is nothing anti-speculative about single family, zoning, downzoning, or any other type of zoning. Zoning merely controls the form of value, not its magnitude nor its movement. Capital gentrifies

On June 22, 1921, overt racism comes out: a proposal to zone Japanese residents out of all residential districts Planning Commission couldn't make being Japanese illegal, but they could rezone

Jesse Kanson-Benanav | #BlackLivesMatter

The triple decker is Boston's iconic architecture; our historic "missing middle" housing, first built en masse to house Boston's growing working class & has served generations of families since. But

Agree that big vs. small is the wrong framing. But so is the below.We need better-designed regulation, not more or less of it.We have too-restrictive zoning regulations in some ways.

Danielle Chemtob

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Thread: 1/ Since RNC brought up the issue of single-family zoning, I thought it would be useful to have a quick refresher. First, some history: after race-based zoning was outlawed

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People move to Tacoma to escape the growth in Seattle not realizing that they are moving somewhere and are “the growth” they were trying to escape. Density isn’t about buildings

Christopher Schmidt

This lot is currently home to a 3 family building. However, it is zoned such that is only allowed 2 units, due to a lot size/unit minimum of 5000 square

Glenn Kirschner

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Suburbs in the UK are hell, so America's love of "single-family zoning" never made sense to me. The beautiful homes in Portland make me understand why people here are attached

Michael Tae Sweeney

This is insanehttps://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/03/critics-want-cleveland-to-replace-zoning-code-allowing-controversial-oversized-townhouses-slot-houses.html Ah yes The "danger" of not being eternally vigilant is "some town

Dr. Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein

Jersey City, do you care about affordable housing?You've got some work to do this week.1/ If you get Mayor Fulop's emails, you probably know that City Council is on the

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If policy (1) ties school quality to the neighborhood in which a kid lives, and (2) makes it tough to build cheaper high-density housing near the best schools, then lots

Zack Subin 🥑 🏳️‍🌈

Mine (Ocean View, SF) was zoned red. "No racial concentrations exist, nor is there any threat of such a condition in the future; however, many of the inhabitants are of

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One of the reasons Northbrae, Berkeley is so white and is currently at 1% Black population is because the developer pioneered single-family zoning restrictions in Berkeley. It worked. In all

panoptic con artist

We have known this forever—literally, this is basically American housing policy—and anyone that tells you that you *just* need new construction or *just* need more targeted subsidies is deliberately obfuscating