BU Today Feature: “Vanguards in Urban Planning: Transforming Vancouver, Toronto, and Minneapolis”

“Minneapolis’ requirement that multifamily housing be permitted in all residential areas
struck an overdue blow against racism in housing policy—and sets a model for other cities, a
Minneapolis planner told Bostonians Monday at a forum at CitySpace, the public affairs venue of WBUR, BU’s National Public Radio station.

‘We have a history that is steeped in racially biased zoning policy,’ Heather Worthington, the Minnesota city’s director of long-range planning, told the audience. Zones with exclusively single-family housing require the wealth to purchase such homes on large lots, discriminating against renters, and originated as a way to keep lower-income people of color out of white neighborhoods, she said.”

To read more of this piece, check out the BU Today article here.

Couldn’t make it but curious about the event? View the recording from WBUR, accessible here.