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Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
Redlining may no longer be official U.S. policy, but poor and predominately Black neighborhoods, and even whole towns, continue to function as “mortgage deserts.” If millions of poor renters accept exploitative housing conditions, it’s not because they can’t afford better alternatives; it’s because they often aren’t offered any.[16]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
the ability of municipalities to establish rules on land use through zoning is now a settled legal matter. In 1926 the US Supreme Court case of Village of Euclid, OH v. Ambler Realty Company settled the legal power of municipal governments to regulate the use of land. This case unfortunately also set the stage for the development of single-use zoni
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
Of course residents want to know what their city will look like after the red tape is cut. It’s only human. Failing to specify will not prevent prioritization tradeoffs from happening; it’ll just cede that decision to speed and profit alone.
Jasmine Sun • 🌻 tech right (disambiguation)
