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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Name: Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
ISBN: 9781541701465

Richard D. Kahlenberg

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An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social & political fallout that result, & what we can do about it

The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class & executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.

While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race & gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education & income. Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary snob zoning. These government policies make housing unaffordable, frustrate the goals of the civil rights movement, & lock in inequality in our urban & suburban landscapes.

Through moving accounts of families excluded from economic & social opportunity as they are hemmed in through “new...

Kateqoriyalar:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences

İl:

2023

Nəşriyyat:

PublicAffairs

Dil:

english

Səhifələr:

352

ISBN 10: