San Diego adopted single-family zoning in 1923 — effectively barring most people of color from the city's highest-resourced neighborhoods.
San Diego adopted single-family zoning 100 years ago. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson looked into the racist origins of zoning, and how its effects continue today.
Flores said that, at the time San Diego adopted single-family zoning, homeowners had to put 50% down and pay it off in five years. Single-family zoning became a proxy for excluding people of color, according to Gambhir’s co-researcher Joshua Cantong. It funneled lower-income people of color into the few multi-family zoned neighborhoods.
“Homeowners resist multifamily housing development within their single-family zone predominant communities because they want to retain their property values and community character,” Cantong said, “where community character is kind of a liberal euphemism for racial demographics.” In recent debates, San Diegans have also voiced concerns that bringing in more units into single-family neighborhoods could create parking and garbage issues and less privacy.
“Here we are, 1.3 million, and we have this antiquated zoning policy,” he said. “And we see it in homelessness. We see it in skyrocketing housing prices — over a million dollars. We see it in segregation.”
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