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by nikanj 2380 days ago
Mostly: Poor people live in these, or even worse, poor black people.

Most of the zoning laws were not written recently, and they do carry a heavy burden of being both anti-poor and racist.

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> Most of the zoning laws were not written recently, and they do carry a heavy burden of being both anti-poor and racist.

It's not accidental either, they were written that was as a neutral way of implementing racist policies.

Just like the war on drugs was a smokescreen for Nixon to attack the hippies and peace protestors.