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Let’s talk about this City’s history with #exclusionary #land use and zoning laws. #Redlining
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Across the country, including Seattle, #racially #restrictive housing covenants became common in the 1920s. Those covenants were challenged in the courts and in 1926 our U.S. Supreme Court put a stamp of approval on those racially restrictive covenants.
Layered on top of these covenants were financial lending policies that prevented the sale of a single-family home located in a racially restricted area from being sold to a non-white person. This is how #redlining came to be in #Seattle and across the Country.
After four long years of legislative, legal and community engagement processes, we have arrived at a place where I believe it is time for us to say YES to more density, YES to more #affordable #housing and YES to more #neighbors in 27 additional neighborhoods throughout Seattle.
Contrary to the name of the “Select Committee on #CITYWIDE #MHA,” this legislation is not even close to citywide.
There are approx. 127 neighborhoods in Seattle. #MHA only relates to 27 of those 127 neighborhoods, impacting a total of only 6% of existing areas currently and strictly zoned as a single-family home zone.
