In a new report published today our researchers discovered that more than three quarters of residential land in the Sacramento region is reserved for single-family housing. |
As with other regions where single-family zoning dominates, the report found this to be consequential for low-income people and people of color in terms of health, educational and income outcomes, and access to high-opportunity neighborhoods. And consistent with our previous research on zoning for the Bay Area and southern California, we observed that as the proportion of a neighborhood's single-family-only zoning increased, so did its white population, while the populations of all other racial groups declined (See graph below).
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