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Abstract
On January 11, 1977, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation, 45 USLW 4073, 29 ZD 53, holding that the village's refusal to rezone property to allow the construction of low- and moderate-income housing was not a violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. The decision has been described as a serious blow to the open housing movement. The following comments examine the effects of the decision on future exclusionary zoning litigation in federal courts and on the future of planning for low- and moderate-income housing in the suburbs.