• context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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    4 months ago

    Article 34 of the California State Constitution

    Article 34 was added to the California Constitution in 1950 on the heels of the passage of the federal Housing Act of 1949. The Housing Act of 1949 banned explicit racial segregation in public housing, which left cities scrambling to find alternative ways to separate communities of color from white neighborhoods.

    kkkalifornia at it's finest

    • regul [any]
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      4 months ago

      The town I mentioned earlier, Millbrae, just had a recall election that removed their first ever black city councillor and the first ever councillor from "the wrong side of the tracks" because they supported the conversions of the hotel to transitional housing.

      we need a :california-cool: emote

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          I mean, I'm paraphrasing for the giggles, but "commiefornia", "commieland" are two of the many that get thrown around where I live

          • peeonyou [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            oh yeah.. "commiefornia" and "liberalfornia" were pretty common where i came from