San Diego officials are trying to solve the city’s housing crisis and its relative racial segregration simultaneously with new incentives that encourage more housing for low-income residents in wealthier and mostly White neighborhoods., a federally endorsed practice in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s in which banks and mortgage lenders rejected and approved home loans based on race, income and neighborhood.
The San Diego City Council voted 5-4 to soften existing rules governing where high-rise apartment buildings and additional backyard units can be built. Under most of the city’s low-income housing programs, subsidized units are reserved for people making less than 80 percent of the area median income — $72,900 for a single person.
“We need to do more to make it easier for people of all incomes and all backgrounds to live in neighborhoods with more opportunity,” he said. “I don’t think someone’s destiny is determined in a negative way because they don’t necessarily grow up in a high-opportunity area, but the data says there are exponentially more hurdles in front of them to achieve their potential.”
While the part of the new policy aimed at racial integration affects a relatively limited portion of the city, officials say it makes an additional 3,342 more acres eligible for high-rise development and multiple backyard units. The initial proposal would have created more opportunities for subsidized housing in racially diverse, low-income areas than in White, high-income areas.
if policy was ever where social justice originated, we'd trust policy and trust policymakers. but I think we've all seen the truth play out endlessly: words to numb the stings of reality. money speaks.
I assume the solution will be far from equitable.
I’m assuming the solution will be far from equitable.
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