Excluded How Snob Zoning Nimbyism And Class Bias Build The Walls We Dont See Richard D Kahlenberg by Richard D. Kahlenberg 9781541701465, 1541701461 instant download after payment.

The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class & executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.

While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race & gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education & income.  Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary snob zoning.  These government policies make housing unaffordable, frustrate the goals of the civil rights movement, & lock in inequality in our urban & suburban landscapes.

Through moving accounts of families excluded from economic & social opportunity as they are hemmed in through “new...