Thread by @damienISgoodmon

Expect a lot to be made of this. But it remains unfortunately simplistic (zoning in Malibu has nothing to do with educational outcomes in South Central), & misses the opportunity to provide a racial impact frame in the context of the current housing market & policy discussion. /1

https://twitter.com/oandbinstitute/status/1499056233382178823

What has occurred (& regrettably (through my very quick skim of the report) is @oandbinstitute has fallen in the trap of focusing on exclusionary zoning & not exclusionary communities. This framing is the product of loads of RE industry $$$/YIMBY to reshape the housing debate. /2

The @oandbinstitute report is also regrettably silent on the racial and economic impacts of reforming zoning in marginalized communities that is pretty well shown to exacerbate current inequalities. #ZonedOut is over a 5 years old. /3

On simplism: the percentage of SFH zoning in Calabasas is immaterial to the conditions of Inglewood & Crenshaw which feature supermajority Blk & Brown populations that feature homes filled marginalized ppl on BOTH multi-family & single family zoned parcels. /4

This is a recent multi-family development of townhomes in my backyard of Crenshaw's Leimert Park.

A recent sale: $932K

Changing zoning from industrial to multifamily did nothing for "INCLUSION"

The price makes this a *new* EXCLUSIONARY community @oandbinstitute

#ExpoWalk /5

A good racial justice analysis would view the development process as a whole. U'll c that such disadvantages marginalized/BIPOC ppl (REGARDLESS of parcel zoning) & increases urban displacement pressure that push us to POOR SUBURBS that r ironically disproportionately SFH zoned /6

The hood has been multi-family "zoned" since b4 it was legal. (We've been converting garages & splitting houses w/o permits to pay the mortgage for forever).

The current urban rezoning focus pushes BIPOC residents in dense/high transit use areas out to poor SFH zoned suburbs. /7

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