Across America, some places still outlaw living with people who aren’t relatives (theatlantic.com)

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I'll save you the click "Rosenblatt went to court, and eventually, in 2016, the city dropped its case against her."

Interesting to note that the root of the complaint was not the number of residents, but the number of vehicles or parking spaces used. Some of those numeric residential restrictions date from times when it was hard to distinguish between an informal/unlicensed boarding house catering to single women and a bordello, so a numeric limit was used to avoid having to distinguish. Source: friend whose sorority house exceeded the limit.

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Weren’t those laws made and selectively enforced to prevent immigrants and black people from being able to afford a house? The racist past still haunting American towns.

They're called "blue laws". I believe Douglas County,Kansas (US) still has an ordinance that forbids being naked out of doors unless you are also in possession of a bar of soap.