[artichokegrower]

They don't have single-family housing in Somalia

[SuperLuminal]

Yep! Tried and true technique to spread crime and pestilent somalis to the suburbs... The moslem invasion continues on all fronts...

[rrrod]

What could go wrong?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

... Eliminate single-family zoning ..:

What could possibly go wrong?

[jim_trent]

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.

[Da Coyote]

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.

[lastchance]

It is so refreshing to see a journalist write an article that is free of bias and assumptions. This was not it.

[aspasia]

racist housing practice

Minneapolis City Council racist? They'v run the housing program for who knows how long.

[Steve_Seattle]

What this signifies is beginning of the end of single-family housing for middle-class families in Minneapolis. High-end neighborhoods will survive, but houses in middle- and lower-middle class neighborhoods will gradually be torn down and replaced with apartments of varying quality (townhouses are increasingly expensive, and are not really a solution to the low-income housing problem). I see this happening in Seattle already.

As more apartments are built, the remaining houses will be less attractive to home-buyers, and will gradually fall into disrepair and be torn down. After 20 or 30 years, all the single-family homes in the neighborhood will be gone. (Oh, maybe some old curmudgeon will hang on till the bitter end, and the neighborhood kids will call his house "the haunted house" and wonder who lives there, but that too will pass.)

[txrefugee]

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.

[Retvet]

Minneapolis crime is about to sky rocket.

[Nifster]

Precisely

How does single family zoning create segregation???

[Ackackadack]

Reason #775,362 to stay the hell out of Minneapolis. Please do come visit Minnesota. Just don’t go to Minneapolis.

[PeterPrinciple]

This was passed in Iowa. In effect it negates any zoning and redefines family. Family is now anything we want it to be.

City of Ames counters this with no new rental property applications, restriction on new parking and a rental limit is number of bedrooms plus one of occupancy.

[catnipman]

within a decade, the entire middle-class will have fled, leaving Minneapolis a hollowed out city like Detroit ...