Mesquite wants to increase the minimum home size by 30%. It could price people out of the city

A spacious minimum home size of 2,000 square feet doesn’t constitute a violation of civil rights Fair Housing laws on its own. But advocates and academics say this policy could price people out — and may affect non-white buyers the most.

Originally published in The Dallas Morning News.

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