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twin- <br />ities- <br />using- <br />ules- <br />eep- <br />the- <br />metro-metro{https:, <br />segre <br />Nelima Sitati Munene, a member of the Metropolitan Council Equity Advisory Committee and <br />executive director of African Career, Education and Resource, attended a picnic with residents of <br />a Brooklyn Center community to discuss tenant issues. Photo by Shari Gross. <br />None of these zoning @ J ordinances mention race, but they perpetuate <br />segregation that took root decades ago in an era of more racially explicit <br />housing discrimination. Today, they are seen as a major reason the Twin Cities <br />has some of the nation's worst disparities <br />(https://www.startribune.com/x/600072649/) in income, wealth and <br />homeownership between white residents and people of color. <br />In Minnesota and across the country, a growing number of lawmakers, city <br />planners and advocates for racial equity and housing affordability are pushing <br />cities to drop rules that restrict areas to only single-family housing. They say <br />allowing a mix of housing types ®, — such as duplexes, triplexes or row <br />houses — when properties are redeveloped would make those single-family <br />neighborhoods accessible to a more diverse population and improve <br />affordability for everyone. <br />