Some haven’t found a place at all and decided to leave the state. In the worst cases, people have ended up in tents and RVs that line the streets.
“Put simply, this bill merely permits small-scale additional density without building up or out in neighborhoods,” she said in a statement.According to Richard Rothstein’s “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” single-family zoning proliferated across the country, in part because of a desire to keep people of color out of white neighborhoods after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed zoning by race in the early 1900s.
Today, single-family neighborhoods in places such as South Los Angeles are mostly home to Black and Latino households, and residents there also want to preserve the single-family character. As multiple units replace one, she said, neighborhoods would grow nosier, have less parking and have more renters she sees as less invested in the neighborhood.