“Panel Promotes Collaboration for Missing Middle Housing Reform”
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Andrew Paul, who teaches history at A-B Tech and is the co-founder of the housing nonprofit Asheville for All, spoke about the impact of former segregation laws on today’s modern zoning ordinances.
“If you make [multifamily housing] illegal to build in the neighborhoods you want to protect … you can keep poor people out. If you’re segregated by class, you can at least segregate by race somewhat as well,” Paul asserted. “There is no mention of race in the zoning code itself. But I think we can say that this national trend of exclusion, of segregation, created norms and models, and those ideas are certainly with us today.”
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