We must defend private property rights in the suburbs. That includes the right of a property owner, perhaps a developer, to build rental property on his land if he wishes to do so. It also includes the right of a homeowner to subdivide and rent to multiple families in his four bedroom rancher. It includes the right of an older person to take in boarders. Private property rights offer many avenues for addressing the shortage of affordable housing. Exclusionary zoning, on the other hand, is big government interference with the market that creates artificial shortages. Of course, reasonable tradeoffs can be made. If you want exclusionary zoning on your cul de sac, fine, but offset it by accepting densification and multi-family housing along arterial roads and around transit stops. What has to end is the suburban idea that all the problems can be quarantined within the city. Housing costs are lower in the suburbs, which is a natural magnet for lower income people if we let markets function. And jobs, especially entry level service sector jobs, are also increasingly located in the suburbs. If we expect low income people to get off welfare and join the labor force, we should not block them from living close to suburban job centers.
The Subs be guilty of White Flight.
Silly Whitey, the world is a Ghetto.
You will be Absorbed.