Residents are against class-oriented reforms which would reduce racial inequality, such as affordable housing programs and zoning inside wealthier neighborhoods. Further investigation reveals this may be racially motivated, potentially an example of More profound racism institutionalized in the past perpetuates a subtle and insidious racism today (Oluo).
Today, decades after racist covenants were banned, many white neighborhoods maintain their segregation in less explicit ways, but with the same overall effect. Vigorous fights against affordable housing in wealthier, and even middle-class, neighborhoods have kept people with lower incomes out of white neighborhoods. While the discussion has shifted away from race and toward class, the impetus behind the fight against affordable housing often gives the racist intent away. When ProPublica spoke with residents in wealthy white towns in Connecticut about why they were fighting the construction of mixed-income housing developments in their neighborhoods, the dog whistles abounded. — Mediocre, pg 130