1The place
Scarsdale, New York
A village of about 18,000 people in Westchester County, just north of New York City. Almost all of its land is zoned for single-family houses on large lots.
Fair-housing enforcement assumes that enough pressure on a town will eventually find a political fault line inside it, a contested election or a public vote. Scarsdale shows a town can be built so that no such fault line forms.
Remedies aimed at the zoning code, or at the county, never reached anyone who faced a contested election, because no one did. Enforcement that ignores how candidates are chosen is aimed at the wrong stage.