The headlines were electrifying: Minneapolis legislates an end to single-family zoning, the cornerstone of the American dream. In urban-development circles, the idea was a hit. A number of other localities promised to look at the plan (the state of Oregon has already passed a similar bill) and four Democratic presidential hopefuls endorse the idea. Jenney Schuetz, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, titled her article on Minneapolis’s move, “The Most Wonderful Plan of the Year.”
A close look reveals a proposition that is less draconian than opponents feared, but also one that doesn’t get at the city’s root problem: inadequate access to housing for people with middle incomes or below.
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