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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
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Richard D Kahlenberg

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How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Richard D Kahlenberg

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PublicAffairs,U.S.
12 September 2023
Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Social classes; Urban & municipal planning
"The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.

While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race and gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education and income.

Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary snob zoning.

These government policies make housing unaffordable, frustrate the goals of the civil rights movement, and lock in inequality in our urban and suburban landscapes.

Through moving accounts of families excluded from economic and social opportunity as they are hemmed in through ""new redlining"" that limits the type of housing that can be built, Richard Kahlenberg vividly illustrates why America has a housing crisis. He also illustrates why economic segregation matters since where you live affects access to transportation, employment opportunities, decent health care, and good schools. He shows that housing choice has been socially engineered to the benefit of the affluent, and, that astonishingly the most restrictive zoning is found in politically liberal cities where racial views are more progressive.

Despite this there is hope. Kahlenberg tells the inspiring stories of growing number of local and national movements working to tear down the walls that inflicts so much damage on the lives of millions of Americans."
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Imprint:   PublicAffairs,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   560g
ISBN:   9781541701465
ISBN 10:   1541701461
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Richard D. Kahlenberg is a researcher and writer on education and housing policy. He is known as ""the intellectual father of the economic integration movement"" in K-12 schooling and ""the nation's chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions."" His articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, the Atlantic and he has appeared on ABC, CBS,CNN, FOX, C-SPAN, MSNBC, PBS and NPR. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law, he has been a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation, a Fellow at the Center for National Policy, a visiting associate professor of constitutional law at George Washington University, and a legislative assistant to Senator Charles S. Robb (D-VA)."

Reviews for Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

"""A thoughtful, worthy argument for fair-housing reforms that are truly fair."" --Kirkus ""A valuable guide to fixing one of America's most enduring social ills.""--Publishers Weekly"


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