Zoning restrictions for houses are detrimental to the well-being of poor people.

This phrase is too simple to agree or disagree with. I will try to explain why: Zoning restrictions for houses are manifold and can have advantages as well as disadvantages for certain people. A generalization and reduction to the detrimental effect of zoning restrictions is therefore not on the level of a sage debate. If a community is going to establish zoning restrictions in certain areas, it may very well conserve existing neighborhoods, environmentally sensitive areas and prevent the mixing of incompatible land uses. This could also have positive effects to indigent people, living there. For example pleasure grounds can be protected from being covered with buildings. To support impecunious people and their living situations, other, more effective governmental measures should be implemented: a revolutionary change of the inheritance and fiscal law as well as public assisted conversion of vacant industrial real estate into affordable housing space.