Why Urban Growth Boundaries Fail

Are urban growth boundries are causing minorites to be locked out of the American dream?

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July 23, 2001, 7:00 AM PDT

For half a century, public policy has sought to create equality of economic opportunity for all people, non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, African-Americans and all others. Minority home ownership rates remain a full third below that of non-Hispanic Whites. The good news is that they have been rising at twice the non-Hispanic White rate. Smart growth's land rationing could turn this around.

Thanks to Wendell Cox

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Monday, July 23, 2001 in Planetizen

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