Source: Liberal Currents
by Abdullah Ejaz
“In Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., Justice Sutherland handed local governments near-total power to reshape neighborhoods on the basis of taste and social preference, even likening an apartment block in a single-family area to ‘a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.’ That comparison mattered because it announced a new rule: you no longer had to show real, measurable harm to stop someone from using their property. Courts moved away from old nuisance laws that demanded evidence and replaced it with discretionary control over how places should look and who should live where.” (04/16/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illiberalism-of-the-local/