Thomas Sowell’s article here.
Skyrocketing housing prices are forcing out families with children, as well as blacks and other people with low or even moderate incomes.
What could be causing this? Is that just the way it is in California, expensive housing means few lower income families? Has it always been like this?
Prior to 1970, California housing prices were very similar to housing prices in the rest of the country. In more recent times, it has not been uncommon for California homes to cost three times what homes cost nationwide.
The main cause is open space laws.
In other words, they can keep out the less affluent people — or, as they put it, “preserve the character of the community” — while benefiting themselves economically in the name of green idealism.
If this was something George Bush did we would call it racism, but because it is done by those on the left they get a pass.
When a business sets standards or policies with adverse effects that fall disproportionately on minorities, courts call that a “disparate impact” and equate it with discrimination.
