Jerusalem Demsas, a writer for Vox, thinks people should “sue the suburbs” to eliminate their exclusionary zoning, meaning single-family zoning. Her example is Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb made well-off by the location of North American corporate headquarters for both Nissan and Mitsubishi.
As a result, the median home price in Franklin is higher than nearby Nashville. Demsas blames that on exclusionary zoning. But incomes in Franklin are higher than Nashville; when compared with incomes, Franklin housing is actually more affordable than Nashville’s. Considering all of the businesses located in Franklin, it is only a suburb in the sense that it is near Nashville, not in the sense that huge numbers of commuters pour into Nashville from Franklin every morning.
Demsas says that Franklin’s relatively small share of multifamily housing is evidence of exclusionary zoning. In fact, it is just evidence that when people get enough income, they prefer to live in single-family housing. Using 2019 American Community Survey data for more than 500 cities across the country, there is almost no correlation between the percentage of housing that is multifamily and the affordability of housing in those cities (correlation = 0.3 where 1 is perfect and 0 means no correlation).
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Long-time Antiplanner readers know that the equation of “affordable housing” with “multifamily housing” is a lie. Multifamily costs more to build per square foot than single-family. For what it’s worth, it also uses more energy per square foot. Multifamily is only affordable if people are willing to live in tiny apartments, but developers can and do build smaller single-family homes for those who can’t afford McMansions.
Single-family zoning doesn’t make housing expensive so long as there is plenty of vacant land for new development. Abolishing single-family zoning won’t make housing more affordable. If anyone should be sued for making housing less affordable, it is the planners who oppose single-family zoning and use growth boundaries and similar tools to make single-family housing more expensive.
People need to stop willfully mislabeling socioeconomic problems with race.
That said, I don’t see where all this zoning is racist angle gets them. As far as I know, there is nothing preventing property owners from forming HOA’s + enforcing the same sort of requirements.
The entire entourage at that Vox Fellowships is a who’s who of useless degenerates whom lecture the rest of us about how underprivileged and oppressed they are.
On a side note, apparently, high schoolers are writing some of the anti-auto propaganda out there:
https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/02/17/bellevues-new-i-405-interchange-wont-reduce-congestion/
People need to stop mislabeling socioeconomic problems with race …..Indeed.
There’s nothing racist about safe streets, crime free neighborhoods and good schools, Urban politicians have had 50 years to deliver those things, meanwhile Chicago had 700 murders, a nearly 50% dropout rate.
Intellectual and cultural habits are the biggest determining factor for societal success. The internet was abuzz about the girl who glued her hair with Gorilla Glue, in a matter of hours it turned into a debate about black women being enforced to adhere to western beauty standards while ignoring natural black hair.
This isn’t about Eurocentric beauty standards, or deferring peoples natural style it’s about an imbecile who mistook industrial strength adhesive for a hair care product.
AOC level intelligence + Internet = Hilarity ensues
Then, Racism Made me do it.
“People need to stop mislabeling socioeconomic problems with race”
Really? Care to point out any mostly black neighborhoods full of doctors, engineers, or store owners?
Exactly. If this was about race, those doctors and engineers would still be living in the hood.
Yeah. My comment didn’t mean what you thought it meant. What I mean is that are almost no black engineers or doctors. The reason is fairly self-explanatory:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World-iq-map-lynn-2006.svg
PG County, MD and DeKalb County, GA are 1 and 2 in black wealth in the US. That said, you aren’t going to find black economic hubs like Sweet Auburn, Harlem, or Tulsa anymore. Those high achieving blacks live in the same neighborhoods the Demas believes needs to be sued.
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What I mean is that are almost no black engineers or doctors.
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That’s not what you said. You spoke to why they weren’t in their own lil’ segregated place. Slighlty racist implication but we’ll give ya a pass since it’s tough to chat bout this stuff without dancing in that realm.
You’re claim that there are no almost no black engineers or doctors is meaningless w/out you defining what constitutes “almost no”.
That’s lawyeristic weasel language. You’re implying there is none while giving yourself an escape route to claim that “well, I didn’t say there was absolutely none”.
Let’s jumpstart this conversation:
a) How many blacks had college degrees in 1940? 2020?
b) How many blacks were in licesended professional occupations like doctors, dentists, civil engineers, et al in 1940? 2020?
Without some numbers, something of substance, we’re just pissing in wind in circles.
By this logic, Washington, DC, which has a high share of multifamily housing among its housing stock, should be a very affordable (and non-exclusionary) place to live. But it isn’t. In fact, most of it is unaffordable to people outside the top income quartile. Maybe time to rethink cause and effect.
“Let’s jumpstart this conversation:
a) How many blacks had college degrees in 1940? 2020?
b) How many blacks were in licesended professional occupations like doctors, dentists, civil engineers, et al in 1940? 2020?
Without some numbers, something of substance, we’re just pissing in wind in circles.”
I’ll ignore the liberal race-baiting because it just doesn’t work on me. I don’t care. Liberals love to call other people racist from the safety of their lilly-white neighborhoods.
My posts were mostly in reference to this statement:
“Intellectual and cultural habits are the biggest determining factor for societal success.”
Well, so let’s see. Blacks don’t have intellect (yes, I know there are statistical outliers like Ben Carson, but that’s why it’s called a outlier. It’s very rare), and their culture is, well, shit. Just one of those things is enough to screw their chances, but both together?
If you want to bash me for racism blah blah blah, please refer to that IQ map and get back to me. It’s simply not possible to maintain a western Europe style civilization with an average IQ of under 95. For every one Ben Carson, there’s twenty thousand Taquerius Jaquan Johnson’s robbing liquor stores and raping women. Those ratios are simply untenable, and the continued import of blacks and other so-called “refugees” from the worst third world shitholes will turn this country into Detroit. Bear in mind when I say that, that actual African Americans have higher IQ’s than native African’s, because most of them have some European DNA.