Posted on 12/15/2018 12:18:47 PM PST by artichokegrower
In a bold move to address its affordable-housing crisis and confront a history of racist housing practices, Minneapolis has decided to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that has long perpetuated segregation.
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Maybe not if they’re suddenly next door to multi-family housing.
I’m ok with that. I’ll get my parents place hear downtown mpls
I say too bad, change happens, get use to it.
In 1906 Las Vegas was 6 stick built one room shacks, things changed since then
Neighborhoods change, populations change, demographics change, it going to happen, building more roads and building single family homes out in the middle of some woods or field is very expensive, building up and higher density living in high demand areas is cheaper and will allow more people to live closer to work and town/city centers.
Nothing stays the same forever, it either grows or dies..
This isn’t block busting, in fact block busting wasn’t even a real ‘thing’.
... Eliminate single-family zoning ..:
What could possibly go wrong?
Nope. Someone is connected to local real estate developers who want to put multiple residence housing in. There are going to be lots of $$$$$$ to be made.
So the builder comes into an area he wants to develop, he shadow buys the property under some BS LLC at bargain prices and meets with the mayor with a paper bag with a 5 grand in cash and asks for consideration for his development project so it can just fly through zoning.
Joe Blow who sold got screwed, he played by the rules and could only sell his property for what is zoned for. If his property could be developed legally into a low rise condo development, Joe Blow could have gotten 10X asking. Even if Joe Blow went to the zoning board for a variance to build said project and even had 100K in lawyers and engineers the zoning board will still reject Joe, screw him, he’s a nobody. Joe Blow is you and me.
I moved out of a north suburb of Minneapolis about 35 years ago. I got a 25% raise in salary to move, the average housing prices in MN were 2-1/4 times what they were where I moved, the income taxes were about 40% less than what they were in MN, and the people here usually vote Republican. I have not regretted it.
Actually incorrect, studies indicate people prefer living ground level on land and not inside high rise sardine cans.
High dense living is usually mandated upon them.
The current Somali Mass immigration is not liberty but coercion. If taxes were low again, people demographics would chase healthier living.
Heh, that’ll fail for N reasons, where N is a large number, and none of the reasons will be known or comprehensible to a progressive.
... Eliminate single-family zoning ..:
What could possibly go wrong?
Why was here in the first place?
Why should government steal your property and sell it back to you or to someone else?
Think about it.
Your assertion is that Government should tell people how to live
If you want to live in a single family home, go buy one.
But you should not be required to
If you can not afford one or single family homes don’t exist in your market (like Manhattan) you are going to have to live in multi unit buildings.
My argument is that zoning itself is illegal, it steals your property rights and gives it to the government where government connected cronies get paid off to sell your rights to someone else.
It is so refreshing to see a journalist write an article that is free of bias and assumptions. This was not it.
Do you think the powers that be will figure out how this will impact the school system?
Where did you move *to*? I might be interested in following you.
While, spot zoning changes (e.g. to allow a conversion of a single-family dwelling to a triplex)usually result in a price boost, for the property; I doubt that will happen in this case, because the market will be flooded with new redevelopment opportunities. Also, as others have pointed out above, if the neighbourhood is “de-gentrified”, that could more than offset any gains, due to more permissive zoning.
Minneapolis City Council racist? They'v run the housing program for who knows how long.
The spiteful rich guy who got himself hosed in a divorce can now buy the houses surrounding the home the wife got, tear them down and build low income multi-family.
That's because the 1960's house is a tear-down. The others are newer.
So the Somalis, the ugliest immigrant group in the USA, can be scattered across a city and watched. When these potential terrorists are concentrated in segregated enclaves, it’s harder to keep track of them.
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