{"id":4909,"date":"2021-04-09T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2021-04-09T21:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:24:36","slug":"americas-racist-housing-rules-really-can-be-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s racist housing rules really can be fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Neighborhoods matter. As Vox\u2019s Dylan Matthews reported<\/a>, researchers Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz found in 2016 that moving to a wealthier neighborhood not only increased the likelihood that kids would go to college, but also increased earnings by roughly 31 percent by the time they\u2019d reached their mid-20s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of what has kept Kennetha out of living in Franklin is exclusionary zoning. Single-family zoning, which means it\u2019s illegal to build anything other than single-family homes, is prevalent in the suburb. Single-family homes are more expensive than apartments, townhomes, or duplexes, and that makes rent costly, too. Houses in Franklin go for an average price of $550,000<\/a>, far above the average in Nashville of $335,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some parts of Franklin, itis illegal to have a property smaller than 2 acres. And even in its \u201cmixed residential district\u201d \u2014 which allows for duplexes and multiplexes \u2014 the town has\u00a0ordained minimum lot sizes<\/a>\u00a0that force builders to make units larger than they otherwise might have.And the bigger the apartment, the more expensive it is.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22252625\/america-racist-housing-rules-how-to-fix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Neighborhoods matter. As Vox\u2019s Dylan Matthews reported, researchers Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz found in 2016 that moving to a wealthier neighborhood not only increased the likelihood that kids would go to college, but also increased earnings by roughly 31 percent by the time they\u2019d reached their mid-20s.<\/p>\n

Part of what has kept Kennetha out of living in Franklin is exclusionary zoning. Single-family zoning, which means it\u2019s illegal to build anything other than single-family homes, is prevalent in the suburb. Single-family homes are more expensive than apartments, townhomes, or duplexes, and that makes rent costly, too. Houses in Franklin go for an average price of $550,000, far above the average in Nashville of $335,000.<\/p>\n

In some parts of Franklin, it is illegal to have a property smaller than 2 acres. And even in its \u201cmixed residential district\u201d \u2014 which allows for duplexes and multiplexes \u2014 the town has ordained minimum lot sizes that force builders to make units larger than they otherwise might have. And the bigger the apartment, the more expensive it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,270,366,1249],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-housing","tag-income","tag-neighborhoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}