We can create hundreds of thousands of new homes in the region just by allowing accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and conversions of large single-family homes to two- or three-family homes.
None of this happened by chance, none of this is a coincidence. It’s rather an accumulation of policy decisions made over several generations.”
Racial separation in the region is very strong: less than 10 percent of census tracts are racially“balanced,” that is, have about the regional average proportion of black families. Blacks are substantially under-represented in more than 70 percent, and substantially over-represented in about 20 percent of census tracts.