To address the national housing crisis, we must confront exclusionary zoning

The United States is suffering from three interconnected crises that have brought it to an inflection point: unprecedented levels of income inequality, resurgent racial animus, and a worsening housing crisis. 

To address our nation’s staggering racial wealth gap — and our current housing crisis — we must confront the exclusionary zoning practices that limit housing opportunities across most of the country’s large metropolitan areas. 

Ever since explicit racial zoning laws were...