Title: Exclusionary zoning - Wikipedia
Headings: Exclusionary zoning
Exclusionary zoning
Contents
History
Legal framework
Description
Case history
Examples
Restrictions on the supply of housing units
Direct cost increases
Motivations
Fiscal
Density externalities
Exclusion
Effects
Racial/economic stratification
Education
See also
References

Content: Exclusionary zoning is done to safeguard the individual's property value, reduce traffic congestion, and exclude unalike groups. Exclusionary land-use policies exacerbate social segregation by deterring any racial and economic integration, decrease the total housing supply of a region and raise housing prices. As well, regions with much economic segregation channel lower income students into lower performing schools thereby prompting educational achievement differences. A comprehensive survey in 2008 found that over 80% of United States jurisdictions imposed minimum lot size requirements of some kind on their inhabitants. These ordinances continue to reinforce discriminatory housing practices throughout the United States. Contents
1 History
2 Legal framework
2.1 Description
2.2 Case history
3 Examples
3.1 Restrictions on the supply of housing units
3.2 Direct cost increases
4 Motivations
4.1 Fiscal
4.2 Density externalities
4.3 Exclusion
5 Effects
5.1 Racial/economic stratification
5.2 Education
6 See also
7 References
History
Zoning began gaining prominence in land-use regulations throughout the United States in the late 19th century. Ultimately, despite resistance from excluded peoples and activists, the policy is still extensively used in the 2010s across the country. The vast, land-rich country upheld the notion that state powers should not interfere with private property. Also, given the country's predominately rural and isolated composition, most citizens were unconcerned about who their neighbors were at the time. Thus, early Americans largely disapproved of any early attempts at exclusionary zoning.