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Originally Posted by davequanbury
SFH zoning! I'm sure not everyone her would agree with me but I think SFH zoning is legalized NIMBYisn at best, classist and zenophonic at worst.
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"According to multiple sources, single-family zoning originated in 1916 in the Elmwood neighborhood of Berkeley, California as an effort to keep minorities, specifically a Black dancehall and Chinese laundries, out of white neighborhoods"
"Single-family zoning became basically the only option to try to maintain both race and class segregation," - Jessica Trounstine (associate professor of political science at the University of California, Merced)
"The detached single-family home — is routinely, as in the United States, considered to be so incompatible with all other types of urbanization as to warrant a legally defined district all its own, a district where all other major land uses and building types are outlawed."
Reading up on the history of SFH zoning it's arguably worse then everything you listed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single...zoning#History