Episode 41: Race, Zoning, Planning, and the Future

Sweat the Details by Nest Realty

This is a big and heady conversation, as evidenced by the extensive show notes and accompanying blog post, and is the start of what is going to be a needed and necessary ongoing conversation that starts in many ways with how Realtors, originally known as “real estate men” were at the forefront of implementing racially-based zoning and restrictions, and how those, combined with urban planning designed to effect racial segregation continues today.

- I'm excited so many people are interested in my current research. I'm investigating the connections between white supremacy, segregation, and modern anti-housing policy in the US, focusing on Charlottesville, Virginia.

- What is anti-housing policy?

- How racial segregation was sneakily codified by housing type, lot size.

- When did the boom start?

- JC Nichols

- “Real estate men” were part of the entire process of racial segregation

- Who was Harland Bartholomew, and what was his role in establishing national zoning

- Impact of transference of generational wealth

- Systematic targeting of races to rend them

- Urban renewal material is still being taught

- Kelo v City of London

- Transportation & single family zoning impact on segregation

- What’s the opposition to housing types and integration

- Return to urban and tighter communities

- What should we be doing to in urban planning to enhance socioeconomic diversity?

- NIMBY

- Failed bill in Virginia to remove single family zoning

- Minneapolis Has A Bold Plan To Tackle Racial Inequity. Now It Has To Follow Through

- To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space

- Transit-oriented development

- Bicycles and transportation and equality

- Don’t force people to pay for parking

- Density and university parking

- ‘Corona Cycleways’ Become the New Post-Confinement Commute

- Superblocks’ huge benefits, where are they, how can we implement them

- How do we create the society we want?