Single-Family Zoning in California |
Our key revelation is stunning: 95.8 percent of all residential land (incorporated & unincorporated regions) in the state is exclusively zoned for single-family housing, which effectively bars multi-family units and other types of housing from being constructed. When we look only at incorporated residential regions of the state where the vast majority of Californians live, that figure drops to 82 percent, which is still a tremendously high percentage of single-family-only zoning.
Consistent with our past studies on the impacts of exclusionary zoning in different regions, this statewide analysis unsurprisingly shows clear correlations between zoning, and the racial composition of a neighborhood and their life outcomes. |
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(This is just one sample of the hundreds of zoning maps we created for every jurisdiction of California, downloadable here.) |
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The graph at the top of this email shows how the percentage of white residents quickly climbs as the percentage of single-family zoning increases, while the percentage of Latinos (who make up a plurality of California residents) plummets.
And just like with our previous regional reports, this latest statewide analysis confirms that across the board zoning produces an uneven impact on educational performance and attainment, wealth creation, exposure to pollutants, and many other critical life indicators. |
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Blog: The Destabilization of American Housing
In a separate release, last week we published the first installment of a five-part series by OBI Data Analyst Joshua Cantong looking at municipal zoning reform efforts in the United States. This multi-part series makes an argument for tenant-inflected zoning reform as a method and approach to ground future zoning reform efforts. This first part, "The Destabilization of American Zoning," provides a quantitative descriptive overview of local zoning reform efforts across the nation. Read Part I here.
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New Excerpt from Belonging Without Othering
In the previous newsletter (published May 8) we shared an excerpt on bridging from the recently published book Belonging Without Othering, co-authored by OBI Director john a. powell and Assistant Director Stephen Menendian. And this week we're sharing a new excerpt published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, titled, Belonging With Agency, which includes an introduction by Mr. Menendian. "Like equality, achieving a broadly inclusive state of belonging may be only ever an aspiration, but it is one that can shape our world for the better, even if only in pursuit," he writes in the introduction. Check it out here.
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john a. powell featured in PBS documentary about Kerner Commission report
OBI Director john a. powell is featured in this almost 2-hour-long documentary produced by the PBS program American Experience, called "The Riot Report," which aired yesterday (May 21). It refers to what is more commonly known as the Kerner report, commissioned by the Johnson administration more than 50 years ago to study the causes of the long hot summer of 1967 when uprisings in segregated Black cities swept the United States. In the documentary, powell says: “We think of the civil rights movement and Jim Crow, the heart of it being in the South. But you had cities all across the country up in flames. And those reactions to the continued oppression of blacks, it was never just spontaneous. It was always responding to some state-formed oppression.”
Watch the documentary here, and read a feature summarizing it here. You can also find many resources from a conference we organized in 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Kerner report here. |
Applications Open for Targeted Universalism Community of Practice
Seed Collaborative and the Belonging Lab, in partnership with the Othering and Belonging Institute, are thrilled to offer the 2nd annual Targeted Universalism (TU) Community of Practice (COP) for people from government, NGOs, foundations, academia, B-corps, or social impact orgs who want to take a deep dive into understanding and implementing TU. The 2024 COP is an opportunity for participants to grow their TU "muscle," build relationships with other professionals across the U.S., and grapple with the challenges and opportunities with planning for, implementing, and evaluating TU. Application deadline is June 30. Learn more here.
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Check out our merch store for OBI swag
We're always adding new stuff to our swag catalog. We've got beanies and all types of clothing, posters, bags, mugs, and more. Visit our shop here. |
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