Michigan Law Review Volume 69 Issue 2 1970 Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--Zoning--Snob Zoning: Must a Man's Home Be a Castle? Michigan Law Review Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Land Use Law Commons, Law and Race Commons, and the State and Local Government Law Commons Recommended Citation Michigan Law Review, Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--Zoning--Snob Zoning: Must a Man's Home Be a Castle?, 69 MICH. L. REV. 339 (1970). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol69/iss2/7 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Law Review at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NOTES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-EQUAL PROTECTION ZONING-Snoh Zoning: Must a Man's Home Be a Castle? It is a well-documented fact that a shortage in housing is one of the most critical problems confronting the United States in the 1970's.1 Neither is it a secret that the lack of decent housing strikes with particular intensity at the poor and the black and other minor ity groups. While the more affluent members of society are able to flee to the wide-open spaces of suburbia, the disadvantaged urban dweller can do little more than watch the central city decay and crumble around him. When, as one study has pointed out, ninety nine per cent of the vacant land of the twenty largest urban areas is located outside the central cities,2 this problem becomes crucial.