Barriers in Urban Housing

My topic of choice that I researched for this assignment was Barriers in Urban Housing. This search brought up a number of exclusionary zoning scholarly articles and books. While searching I came across this book titled Drugs, Crimes, and Social Isolations: Barriers to Urban Opportunity.[1] To be completely honest I just read the title of this text and was automatically drawn to read it. Another source I came across and thought would be beneficial is titled Exclusionary Zoning: The Need for a Regional Planning Context. This article explains how an increasing number of challenges to zoning and building regulations based on their exclusionary consequences for low-income and/or minority groups found their way into the courts.[2] I feel that this source would help me completely flesh out specific details about the present exclusionary zoning barriers. Another source that I found which I felt could also provide a lens to flesh out specific details is entitled Exclusionary Zoning: A Wrong In Search of a Remedy.[3]In researching older housing barriers and modern day barriers I came across a text named Modern housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. I found this source very interesting specifically because it sheds light on the largely forgotten alternatives that existed when federal policies were first defined in the New Deal.[4]

Some other sources that I came across while researching for my specified topic included an essay titled “Barriers to Accessible Housing: Enforcement issues in Design and Construction Cases Under the Fair Housing Act”[5], an article titled “Breaking the Exclusionary Land Use Regulation Barrier: Policies to Promote Affordable Housing in the Suburbs”[6], another article titled “Schools and Housing Markets: An examination of School Segregation and Performance in Connecticut”[7], and another essay titled “The Politics of Exclusionary Zoning in Suburbia”[8]. From all of these sources I hope to fully flesh out the history and deeply rooted history behind these Barriers in Urban Housing.