Emily Hamilton on the Current State of the U.S. Housing Market and Solutions for Reform
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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The Red Lining Story in New York City
In the early sixties there was hi huge gap ther he surplus stock of housing, which ties inase to the story about san francisco. Zoning certainly emerged as a way to separate people from each other as much as away to separate uses. In cities across a country, particularly in southern cities, following the supreme court decision of buchanan v warley that made zoning by race explicitly illegal. Some cities began using things like minimum lot size requirements, or single family zoning as a tool for segregating people by race,. indirectly, by segregating them by house directlys. But they found work round to the supreme court ruling to still separate people.
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