Freer housing is ‘fairer housing’ — HUD should tie funding to looser zoning
“America’s housing market is neither free nor fair. As living costs spiral upwards and housing demand outpaces supply for the eighth year in a row, minorities and low-income Americans have fewer choices for where and how they live. As a result, economic segregation is becoming more entrenched while racial segregation persists as fewer Americans move to opportunity. Since 2000, the number of black and Hispanic Americans living in high-poverty neighborhoods has risen by nearly 80 percent”