Homes are less affordable than ever before, and that problem is especially acute for young couples who have children or who would like to start a family. That makes it all the more infuriating when cities and counties try to expand their housing stock in a way that explicitly doesn’t accommodate young parents.

A new paper in the Yale Law Journal explores one sort of anti- family housing discrimination : Municipalities often approve new low-income housing available only to senior citizens.

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