[paulgb]

It would be framed that way, but the irony is that mandatory parking minimums are more anti-poor, it’s just that the burden on the poor is hidden in the cost of housing making it less obvious.

Car ownership is lower among people with very low incomes, but if they want a place to live they still have to pay for parking to be built. Shoup’s book has some examples of proposed low-income housing that ended up getting blocked over parking minimums, even though most of the would-be residents did not own cars.