Resistance To Multi-Unit Housing Helping Keep Marin County Racially Segregated

By CBS San Francisco

December 8, 2020 at 7:59 pm

MILL VALLEY (KPIX 5) — Marin was recently identified as the most racially segregated county in the Bay Area and what’s happening on a piece of property in Mill Valley may hold the reason why.

In 2004, Phil Richardson says he created a plan at the city’s request to build multi-unit housing on a 1.25 acre site on East Blithedale Avenue, the last, large vacant lot in town.

“When I started the project the neighbors above me wrote a letter to the town saying they were concerned that this project would decrease their property values,” he said.

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