AP English Language and Composition Quiz
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Cities should eliminate single-family-only zoning. When large areas of a city allow only detached houses, housing supply stays low, prices rise, and entire neighborhoods become inaccessible to teachers, nurses, and young families. Allowing duplexes, triplexes, and small apartment buildings would make cities more affordable and more inclusive.
Single-family zoning restricts supply by law. In growing cities, demand increases, but the rules prevent new homes from being built in many neighborhoods. The result is predictable: bidding wars, long commutes, and people pushed farther from jobs and schools.
This zoning also reinforces inequality. When only expensive homes can be built in desirable areas, wealth concentrates and schools become segregated by income. Cities then spend money "fixing" inequality while maintaining the policies that create it.
Opponents argue that changing zoning will destroy neighborhood character. But "character" often means keeping newcomers out. A duplex does not erase a community; it simply makes room for more people to live there.
Ending single-family-only zoning is not an attack on homeowners. It is an adjustment to a housing market that no longer matches reality.
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