In a misguided move to prevent racism in housing, Minneapolis has done away with "single family zoning", meaning that no neighborhoods can be zoned for single-family houses only.
This will give rise to apartment buildings popping up in these neighborhoods, which will slowly lead to their decline and an overall plummeting of property values there.
The rationale for the decision is that single-family zoning was supposedly borne from racism, after racial zoning laws were made illegal a long time ago. Supposedly it was assumed at the time that zoning neighborhoods as "single family house only" would price out most black people.
Whether or not that story is true is debatable, but it doesn't really matter. What matters is whether single family zoning is racist today, and whether it serves any valid function.
It definitely serves a valid function. Single family home neighborhoods tend to attract not just families, but families with pride in the neighborhood and the desire to set roots in the area for a long time. Apartments, on the other hand, often attract non-families and those who are not looking for a place to live long term. It is not fair to drag down longstanding nice single family home neighborhoods with the construction of apartment buildings.
Furthermore, this looks a lot like socialism to me. Rather than allowing the middle and upper class people to spend their hard-earned money to live away from the criminal elements, the city is forcing the criminal elements back into all neighborhoods.
Basically they're saying, "It's not fair that Minnesota has good and bad neighborhoods, so let's make them all bad."
Details are here:
https://slate.com/business/2018/12/m...ng-racism.html ... though note that the article is on left-wing site Slate, which is heavily biased in favor of this decision.
BTW, this is basically the same argument which led to busing students from poorer areas into public schools in richer areas. The result was ruining all of the schools. Los Angeles did this decades ago (and still does), which is why the city school district is considered so terrible, and why a bunch of lousy-but-expensive private schools sprung up, which still succeed to this day.