Hello cawacko,
You better be careful. You're opening a can of worms here, with this zoning argument. I don't think it's really gonna get a lot of support. Wait till you read my response to this. You'll find it not going where you hoped, I'm sure...
Why is it racist to have different zoning in different areas? That simply sets out some areas as singly-family and others as multi-family. Generally, the single-family areas are going to be higher priced than the multi-family areas. All that does is divide the wealthy from the middle. It has nothing to do with race.
It's not the fact that races are divided by wealth, it's addressing the uneven wealth distribution. People of any race who bought in single-family residential paid a lot of money to do that. They have a right for that zoning to continue as is so that they can see the investment growth they paid for. Changing that zoning isn't gonna fix black poverty. Government assistance programs to give the needy a helping hand into prosperity. That's what reduces black poverty.
I'll tell ya what else we ought to do. The government should build simple minimal single-family residences and run assistance programs to get deserving people living in those new homes that they will eventually own and be able to pass on into the family. That's the secret to wealth. Home ownership. And it's a great idea, because builders do not build low price affordable homes. There is more money in building upscale, so that's about all that gets built. If it's multi-family, guess who owns that? That's apartments. Big corporations own apartments. Nobody is going to be able to build wealth paying rent to big corporations.
