https://www.olympiatime.com/2023/02/how-our-history-of-downzoning-is.html Excellent and concise explanation connecting single-family zoning, “down zoning,” and local control to the increase in racially segregated housing in the Pacific Noryhwest (and perhaps most everywhere else in the U.S.?) since the 1970’s. #urbanism #racialinequality #housingcrisis #housingdensity
How our history of downzoning is an argument against "local control" in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housing

  Eastside Olympia in the midst of large downzone. As the legislature discusses zoning reform that would allow for modest density increases ...