Giving Compass' Take:
- As part of a panel organized by SPUR, Stephen Menendian explains how single-family zoning in the Bay Area has the effect of excluding Black and Latinx populations from neighbourhoods and areas with greater resources.
- What motivations drive single-family zoning patterns in cities and suburbs? What role do individuals and families - especially those with higher net wealth - play in trends of racial segregation and exclusing in housing?
- Read about gentrification and its impacts.
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Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented the Institute's recent groundbreaking research on the harmful effects of restrictive zoning in the San Francisco Bay Area in this panel organized by SPUR on February 2, 2021.
Watch the video about single family zoning by Stephen Menendian at the Othering & Belonging Institute.