Introduction
Every individual, family or group have the dream of living a healthy and purposeful life. Their dream also encompasses the best facilities and the accommodation wherein they could pass their life. However, the idea restricted its implications in different regions of the United States. The problem of the affordable housing is always there in America. Many cities and the towns are significantly engaged in the discriminatory practices through the process of exclusionary zoning. The purpose of such zoning is to exclude the poor and low-income residents from their communities. Similarly, the neighborhood of the individual does not explain his position instead; the surrounded people and the experiences of individuals’ life define it. The social attitudes that are mostly full of inequality and racially discriminatory practices also contribute in restraining the poor families to increase their morbidity. The progress of poor community will not harm the image and the values contain by the suburbanites.
Discussion
The fear and the movements of the poor generation will have no link with the drugs, next-door crime and the related issues. The education level as operating in suburban will remain unchanged because poor people also requires standard education by which they can upgrade their social and practical life. The suffering of the images of the respective town has no connection with the weaker people of Latino and black minorities. The inclusion of the racial element in dealing with the minorities also pertinent in the American society. Those families that are moving from their inner town and cities to the suburbs receive such kinds of derogatory treatment from the suburbanites. The fears of these people are not supported by the reliable factors. The facts are included the thinking of poor people who think that they can get better schooling, jobs, and non-violent community.
There are certain families residing in the towns with the income, which is as low as eight thousand dollars while the median level of income is ten times higher for families with four members. The sociologist Douglas has written Climbing Mount Laurel reveals that the affordable housing for the poor’s has no influence on the residing society of particular people. He further explains that taxes, ratios of crimes and the value of the property are also moving upwards along with the suburb residing near to the respective community. However, he lamented that the lives of poor families including the education of their children have transformed by moving to the society. The schools and the houses along with certain modern facilities in suburbs are same like that of Mount Laurel.
The social and the economic background of the residents of both communities is also same. Certain names and the points are also same and equal to the Mount Laurel, which are present in the suburbs. People in this regard needs to adjust their feelings that what happening in the region of Mount Laurel can repeat in the area of a suburb (Bratt, 2014). A story of the mount laurels started in the nineteen seventy-five with the black residents who have to gather in the Jacob church. They face the severe problem because their weaker and sleep farm was transformed into the wealthy suburb. In the said farm, black parishioners were unable to live, as it was expensive. They move to chapel with the hope of building thirty-six gardens for the poor community, which could enjoy their life. Those back people that gathered have heard a bad news, which said that if you cannot live in our town with our expensive style you would have to leave.
The announcement by the official has created much tension for those present there. The noble request by the individuals after the announcement turn into the protesting movement for many decades. The local officials have fought the war as a struggle for affordable housing. Mount Laurel is a symbol of the struggle done for the integration of socioeconomic and development of suburbia. Many of the residents of the Mount Laurel the factor of the weaker and poor families is entirely irrelevant. The present rich and well to do people does not know that there were affordable homes exist there in the Mount Laurel. The phenomena of where one’s live shapes his identity is true in reality. One of the sociologists argues that why the American are not much individual but overwhelm by the inequality in the neighborhood.
Those families that migrated to the Mount Laurel have the privilege of earning around forty percent of the normal income. They can acquire more than the normal home. The families and the members can have the new lease on their lives. Other than poverty, they can provide the best and solid education to their children (Lake, 2017). There are the number of people that have not acquire home due to the violence in their neighborhood. With less stress and depression along with the availabilities of best jobs, poor people have contributed much than that of nonresidents. The issue of the zoning in the American society is prevalent and there are the number of the problem associated with it.
Since the development and setting of the towns, zoning is the basic concept in the US community. The regulation of the zoning provides the number of facilities along with the public health, safety, and the general welfare. The relation between the zoning and the facilities gives broad deference to the local governments. The regulations of the zoning provide certain special requirements. The planning of the land use is mostly design in accordance with the needs of the community. Through the process of inclusionary zoning states, states efforts are to encourage the commercial and residential developers to maintain the affordable residences in any kind of development.
Without any financial burden, the idea of the inclusionary system for the society encompasses the affordable availability of housing for the people. Those contractors or the developers have to afford the amount and cost of construction. The public has no such burden in facing the financial cost. The population through the inclusionary program can integrate and decrease the sprawl. The system encourages the mix use development. The first movement of the inclusionary zoning was initiated in the decade of nineteen sixty and seventies. Three main elements fought for the exclusionary zoning.
The problem and the issue with the exclusionary zoning is that number of communities have kept families with low income not to move with exclusionary zoning because those cannot face and bear the burden of expenses (Lee, 2016). They require minimum lot size and maximum floor size areas. They also demand the limited multifamily residential areas. Such kind of practices that were operating in the decades of nineteen sixty to seventy have major restrains in providing affordable housing to the present day poor people of the American community. There are certain societies that have disguise the concept of exclusionary zoning for the purpose to preserve the character of the communities.
The issue of the exclusionary zoning is not restricted to the people but courts also have observed that denial of the process upon the presence of regional base general welfare. In the way, municipalities were not able to use the power of the police, as general welfare was extended beyond the boundaries of the municipalities. Suck type of concern force the courts to drag down the concept of exclusionary zoning. The court has ordered for the cities and the town to imply inclusionary zoning. Other than, the services and contributions of the court’s certain legislative bodies also have to try to fix the issue of zoning. Some banned the flatly exclusionary and implication of the discriminatory zoning practices.
In order to provide the community, affordable housing communities will have to adopt the inclusionary regime of zoning. A comprehensive plan is also required for the provision of the affordable housing. The fair share technique can best meet the needs of regional housing. Certain states are providing inclusionary zoning and among those that are active, the gap is filling by the judiciary. Any program back by the legislative deserves the broad difference of the judiciary. Researchers are of the view that many families gravitating towards the suburbia because they have better schools and less violence.
Studies are also elaborating the ideas that individual is not defined by the area where they live. Sometimes it also happens that individual living is not defined because many people spend their investment in their experiences rather than investing on the mortgage in a neighborhood. Certain are the experiences that define and explain a person. The time, which the individual spent in soaking different cultures, and analyzing the world from different perspectives. The person also has the ability to realize how other countries and states work.
Conclusion
Concluding the discussion it is worth mentioning that neighborhood, where the individual is residing, does not define who he is. Those people and the experiences are ultimately the factors that define the individual. Similarly, for the future consideration of the inclusionary programs, there is immediate need of advancing the homebuilders. The practices and the implications of the racial discrimination lead to the marginalization of the poor families. The discussion also concludes that the poor people will not harm the image and the values those contain by the suburbanites.
References
Bratt, R. G., & Vladeck, A. (2014). Addressing restrictive zoning for affordable housing: Experiences in four states. Housing Policy Debate, 24(3), 594-636.
Lake, R. W. (2017). The new suburbanites: Race and housing in the suburbs. Routledge.
Lee, D. (2016). How Airbnb short-term rentals exacerbate Los Angeles’s affordable housing crisis: Analysis and policy recommendations. Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev., 10, 229.
