Exclusionary Zoning, School Segregation, and Housing Segregation: An Investigation into a Modern Desegregation Case and Solutions to Housing Segregation PDF: https://lnkd.in/euMwjUEJ This note will then examine California’s history of school segregation, including analyzing the connection between the passage of Proposition 13 and greater disparity within California school districts. Next, it will investigate a recent desegregation case, People ex rel. Becerra v. Sausalito Marin City School District, where the California Attorney General ordered the Sausalito Marin City School District to desegregate. The note then delves into the history of Marin City and how the zoning ordinances, federal programs, and private real estate tactics purposely separated Marin City from the rest of the county and culminated in the Attorney General’s desegregation order. Lastly, this note will explore solutions to resolve housing segregation in communities like Marin City. The Constitution of the United States makes broad claims about equality, yet this nation is far from achieving its idealistic goals. This country was founded as a segregated society; it treated anyone who was not white as an outsider, not entitled to the same privileges as white men. Even after the Civil War concluded and slavery was outlawed, communities across the nation continued to be the product of self-segregation and further government-sponsored segregation. These practices have affected every aspect of life in the United States. Moreover, these tactics were deliberately used to prevent minorities from gaining equality in housing and, subsequently, in educational opportunities. While these private—and government-sponsored tactics—were not explicitly labeled as de jure segregation or Jim Crow laws, they were used throughout the nation as a method to further the idea that whites were superior to others. Although California was founded as a free state and did not engage in de jure segregation following the Civil War, efforts to separate communities on the basis of race persisted. The results of those segregationist efforts endure to this day and are particularly pronounced in the intersection between housing and schools. Historically, minorities were unable to buy homes in the same neighborhoods as whites, limiting the schools minority children could attend. As a result, this impacted children for the rest of their lives, determining which jobs they could hold, where they could live, and, importantly, the opportunities available to future generations. Even today, isolated communities are still part of American society and segregated schools are not just a feature of the past. #Prop13 #housing #segregation #segregatedneighborhoods #exclusionaryzoning #zoning #schools #racism #Brown #civilrights #freedom #liberty
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