New and Old #149

Friday roundup and commentary

One Black Family’s Half-Century Descent into Exclusionary Zoning Hell, Southern Urbanism, Allison Quinlan, Hunter Adkisson, Airic Hughes & Drew Tiedeman, January 25, 2024

Racially motivated zoning was explicitly outlawed in 1919—private racial covenants, in 1954. Since then, discrimination has persisted, but in less explicit ways. To legally maintain hom…