Housing and land use policies in the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration

The essay analyzes the strategy of the Biden-Harris Administration to address the age-old problems of housing exclusion, instability and affordability further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoning reform and justiciability of disparate impact claimswould be the cornerstones of a renovated American Dream fed by a“comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all”. The A. delineatesthe salient piecesof legislation and case-law on municipal zoning and land-uses, the idea of rethinking the Euclideanplanning zones and the concrete results of innovative solutions,as the cooperation of State Supreme Courts and Law students in elaborating eviction diversion programs. Taking into account the colossalfinancial effort to facethe socio-economic effects of the pandemic, the A. scrutinizes some critical aspects of the Biden-Harris’strategy tocopewith spatial inequalities, suburban sprawl and segregation