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91 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1976-1977)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry91 and id is 1 raw text is: The Politics of Exclusionary Zoning in Suburbia MICHAEL N. DANIELSON With growing awareness of the impact of suburban policies on metropolitan settlement patterns in recent years has come increasing criticism of local land-use and housing practices. One major civil rights group, the Na- tional Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, has concluded that there can be no effective progress in halting the trend toward predominantly black cities surrounded by almost entirely white suburbs . .. [ulntil local governments have been deprived of the power to exclude subsidized housing and to manipulate zoning and other controls to screen out families on the basis of income and, im- plicitly, of race. .1 At the same time, the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People was calling the suburbs the new civil rights battle- ground and urging blacks to do battle out in the townships and villages to lower zoning barriers and thereby create new opportunities for Negroes seeking housing closer to today's jobs at prices they can afford to pay. . . . Similar views have been expressed by a wide variety of urban interests. Resi- dential developers have attacked selfish and exclusionary zoning barriers and urged that a way be found to get away from the constrictive home-rule aspects I See Joseph P. Fried, Housing Crisis U.S.A. (New York, 1971), PP. 50-51. 2 See Geoffrey Sheilds and L. Sanford Spector, Opening Up the Suburbs: Notes on a Move- ment for Social Change, Yale Review of Law and Social Action, 11 (Summer 1972), 305. MICHAEL N. DANIELSON is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Federal-Metropolitan Politics and the Commuter Crisis, coauthor of One Nation, So Many Governments, and editor of Metropolitan Politics. He has recently completed a study of The Politics of Exclusion, from which this article is adapted. Political Science Quarterly Volume 91 Number 1 Spring 1976 1

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