America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed

The suburbs will never be safe again! You’ll never get them back. 🤡

For what, providing an environment that's safe and clean? Sue trailer parks and ghettos.

Those zoning rules are not intended to keep black people out!

They're mean to poor of EVERY race out, definitely including white trash!

You can tell where an article is going to go as soon as you see the words Black and white. OP's title is as misleading as the article. It is not about race it is about income level.

[quote] OP's title is as misleading as the article.

It's the article's title.

Yes, zoning laws are deliberately designed to keep poor people out of the "good" neighborhoods, because the well-off don't want to life next door to poors or to have their kids go to school with poor kids. It's not about race so much as income and social class snobbery.

Of course if you bring up social class and income snobbery that to a middle-class writer who's on an anti-racism crusade, they'll call you a "racist" and say you're part of the problem.

[quote] It’s time to sue the suburbs.

Only an American could write that sentence.

A woke American, R7.

Obama started it, Trump stopped it, now Biden is in for the kill.

Miss Anne they are going to bust the suburbs!

Everyone who moved away from urban areas to get away from "those things and people" are going to find them moving in with force of federal government at their backs.

So if you're white and live in an "urban" area, you're a white devil because of gentrification, but if you're white and move the burbs, you're a white devil for walking away from the "problem".

Sounds like a win win scenario for the people who exist on outrage and hate.

People who just want to do their thing and get along, not so much.

Lot sizes are not to keep black people out. This is getting so ridiculous. These communities don't want tenement housing for anyone. They want giant lots because they all hate each other and never want to see each other. The richer black people who move to these areas don't want poor white or black trash moving in next door. We need to recognize that some things are racism and some things are classism and stop conflating the two all the time.

so they are trying to upzone in my city to increase density in run down ghetto areas, and guess what?, "neighborhood " pushback for too tall buildings and increased traffic. People are so fucking stupid about all these issues and are pushing for policies they have no idea about outcomes and ramifications.

I guess Trump wasn’t so full of shit when he said Democrats wanted to abolish the suburbs as the AP claimed.

Great.

Just when we're putting the inner cities back together thanks to poverty heading into the suburbs.

R10, This is exactly what I have been saying.

I do not want to live next to an apartment building. Or some huge McMansion. In my area, there have been a ton of tear downs and rebuilds of giant homes on tiny lots. It looks absolutely fucking ridiculous. I can't imagine there isn't run off issues as well.

Racist real estate professionals dont help

Its not racism or classism, no one wants trashy neighbours with their loud music and feral offspring.

Disgusting people attract other disgusting people, no matter where you live. Stop making everything about race.

The super wealthy, after they’ve destroyed the suburbs for the rest of us, will still have their gated communities.

We need to soak the rich.

Not American, but don't houses in affluent suburbs have higher property taxes making it almost impossible for poorer people to afford to live there?

Boil them in oil