Posted on 05/19/2021 1:06:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
If you saved your money and bought a house in the suburbs, your investment and lifestyle are under attack. President Joe Biden is pushing to end single-family zoning. The biggest item in Biden’s infrastructure bill, now being negotiated with Congress, is $213 billion he claims will increase affordable housing. Biden wants to put the federal government in charge of zoning and distribute apartment buildings throughout single-family home neighborhoods.
That $213 billion is nearly twice the spending on roads and bridges. It will change towns everywhere and torpedo the American dream of a house with a patch of lawn.
Biden’s plan should be called “hypocrisy housing.” Its backers are hypocrites. Biden himself owns a four-acre lakefront home in upscale Greenville, Delaware, where there is absolutely no public housing, affordable housing or rentals that accept housing vouchers. And don’t expect any to be built next door to the Bidens.
Biden has always had a passion for stately homes and swanky addresses, even buying a 10,000 square foot mansion that once belonged to the DuPont family. Not exactly the image of “Middle-Class Joe.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband own a $5 million gated home on a street of expensive single-family homes in Brentwood, California. That reeks of privilege.
President Barack Obama launched his Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program in 2015 to ensure that every neighborhood includes housing for low-income buyers and renters and public transportation.
Yet, for their own family, the Obamas bought an $11.75 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion on 29 waterfront acres. Martha’s Vineyard is critically short of affordable housing, according to a public report, but that didn’t stop them.
These politicians love single-family zoning and exclusivity for themselves, but not for the rest of us. The poster person for this hypocrisy is avowed Marxist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the Black Lives Matter activist who purchased a home in exclusive Topanga Canyon, part of Los Angeles.
The U.S. has a housing shortage. But many municipalities are already dealing with it. They don’t need Washington, D.C., strong-arming local decision-makers.
That’s what Biden’s plan does. The bill creates a gigantic pot of taxpayer funds to hand out to towns that surrender self-rule.
That’s a mistake. Local control is vital. Towns can take into account the availability of public transportation, school capacity and proximity to employment. Uncle Sam has no clue.
Advocates for federal control argue that if anyone can afford a neighborhood, everyone should be able to afford it. That means locating apartment clusters even way out on country roads. Bus routes and bus shelters would have to be built. Roads have to be widened to accommodate traffic, and sewers and water lines are needed. Say goodbye to country living.
Advocates for abolishing zoning mock suburbanites for worrying about home values. But for most people, their home is their biggest investment, and they waited years to afford it.
Local control allows them to be part of the solution. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is pushing to end single-family zoning, while her opponents warn that increasing density will strain schools and transportation and require cutting down the “tree canopy” over the city’s older neighborhoods. Atlantans will decide.
Other communities are building in-town housing for young working people and seniors while allowing homeowners to build accessory apartments for extended family or renters.
Biden’s proposals to make housing affordable are laughable. He calls for “putting union-building trade workers to work” to “save families money.” Right, as if mandating union-only labor has ever been a money saver.
Instead, he should remove the tariff on lumber. Costs are up 300% in a little over a year.
Biden is also proposing a first-time homebuyer’s tax credit of up to $15,000 that buyers can receive at time of purchase, rather than when they file taxes. Paying people to buy homes will push up housing prices. The same way federal college aid and loans have pushed up tuitions.
Biden’s plan won’t expand the American dream. It’s what will kill it.
Move to the very rural United States, before it’s too late !
Those who fraudulently gained control of the U.S. government want to eff you over in every direction.
Seems like everything this fool does is a major attack on the middle class. Trump warned us about this crap years ago. Once they infiltrate single family neighborhoods with “low rent” housing (means minorities moving in, crime, filth, and and destroying property values) they will create more “blue” neighborhoods leading to “blue states.” Disgusting that they’re even thinking about this.
They will tax you and raise the cost of driving your own vehicle to the point that you will give up.
It is in the plan. They have discussed it openly many times.
There is only one way to live as we always have and that is to clean up the election process so that we can elect people who will represent us and follow the Constitution.
Honorable men will govern honorably.
Ending Local Zoning, as tainted as it is, will be the step that turns our country into a shithole, run by commies in Washington, DC.
The end of freedom starts by giving more and more power over local decision makers.
Joe Biden is the most vacant minded idiot to ever live in the White Hut.
In California most of the rich white people living in exclusive coastal towns and areas like La Jolla, Del Mar, Malibu etc, voted for Biden. Maybe they deserve high rise apartment buildings for low income and homeless in their neighborhood.
“Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband own a $5 million gated home on a street of expensive single-family homes in Brentwood, California. That reeks of privilege”
Confiscate it now and move in five Mexican families!
All local governments have to do is ban all basketball hoops within the city limits.
Utterly unconstitutional.
That’s the ticket. Don’t stop until there multiple Section 8 high rises on the shores of Malibu.
Longtime communist strategy...
For optimum control, need the serfs bunched up in 50-story internment towers...
This is a good time for implementation...
The American sheeple are all curled up in the fetal position in obeisance to their communist masters...
Best strike while the iron is hot...
“President Joe Biden is pushing to end single-family zoning.”
And they said Agenda 21 was just a conspiracy theory “
I get weary of hearing what Biden wants to do and what his plans are. He is much too senile to have a plan or a strategy. The ones in the shadows are calling the shots, and a glimpse of who is in the White House says it all. Biden is just there to make it all possible. The country is being run by evil people. No exceptions.
“Move to the very rural United States, before it’s too late!
LOL. The Agenda 21 based “Wildlands Project’s” goal is 50% of the land in the United States in “Core Wilderness” with little to no human use.
People in rural areas are systematically forced off the land into the ‘Sustainable Communities”. Kimberley Strassel wrote an article about it published in the WSJ. The title was “RURAL CLEANSING”.
Cue up The Hunger Games.
Interesting that everything POTUS Trump said at his Campaign Rallies about what would happen if the DEMONCRATS won (stole) the Election are coming true.
Los Favelas son hermosa!
Author and investigative reporter Stanley Kurtz should be asked about this when interviewed about socialist plans for the suburbs. Because he wrote a book about it
When Obama was an Illinois Senator he and Bill (step on the American flag) Ayers had gained total control of the distribution of funds from the Annenberg foundation which they passed its millions on to lefty fronts offering courses to Illinois and Chicago schools pushing the what soon would be the BLM agenda.
When Obama was doing this Kurtz tried to expose those radical left study programs over a program held by Chicago’s WGN radio’s Extension 720 hosted by Milton Rosenberg and was threatened by protesters who prevented a cohearent presentation.
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