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Why Sprawl Could Be The Next Big Climate Change Battle
National Public Radio ^ | August 6, 2020 | LAUREN SOMMER

Posted on 08/12/2020 9:52:51 AM PDT by epluribus_2

President Trump is attacking Democrats on a new front: suburbia.

"They want to eliminate single-family zoning, bringing who knows into your suburbs," Trump said on a July campaign call.

While it's unclear whether Trump's veiled appeal to racial anxieties will help his poll numbers, the focus on single-family homes has touched on a contentious debate in a growing number of communities. Around the country, cities and states are grappling with how zoning rules have deeply codified racial inequity and exacerbated climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: npr; singlefamily; totalitarian; zoning
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Your tax dollars at work. Convincing the ignorant that the American Dream is Racist and destroying the Environment (bow). Never mind its why most people come here, not to be forced to live in a multi-tenant s-hole where you don't make your own decisions. Assumes you want your own home for your family, local school with your own PTA, choice of good groceries, and most of all intolerance of Blight and Crime (drugs, gangs, prostitution, violence, the urban "package") because, well, you are Selfish, and of course, Racist. Ask a highschool student.
1 posted on 08/12/2020 9:52:51 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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Why, why do we fund these partisans?


2 posted on 08/12/2020 9:53:51 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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Why, why do we fund these partisans?

Because Mitch only uses his b@lls when he's confirming judges.


3 posted on 08/12/2020 9:55:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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Just part of the plot to move everyone (except for the political elites) into urban hives.


4 posted on 08/12/2020 9:58:22 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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Here’s an idea: force everyone in America to live in enormous buildings (sometimes called Arcologies). You could have hundreds of thousands of people living in each structure, riding the same elevators, crammed into convenient mass transit systems. It would be great for the natural environment! We could recirculate the air constantly, and really be up close and personal with all of our thousands and thousands of neighbors.

What could go wrong?


5 posted on 08/12/2020 9:58:22 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Hmmmm. “Attacking dems... “ How about preserving the American dream. No? Too positive?


6 posted on 08/12/2020 10:01:10 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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“While it’s unclear whether Trump’s veiled appeal to racial anxieties...”

Not racial anxieties at all. It’s more like drug dealers, pimps/whores, gangs, human trafficking, rioting, looting and drive-by shootings that give us anxiety.


7 posted on 08/12/2020 10:02:49 AM PDT by moovova
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we cannot coexist with the marxists... it will never stop with them until we are ground to dusk. we must separate.


8 posted on 08/12/2020 10:03:25 AM PDT by Levy78
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Well, duh. The whole point of democrat policies is to make suburban living impossible. Republicans are found in the suburbs. They want to herd us into cities and convert us into reliably dependent democrats, dependent on our government rations of everything from food to information. Suburban life is only possible with plentiful good paying jobs and abundant cheap energy.

All democrat policies are designed to eliminate both of the things necessary to sustain suburban life.


9 posted on 08/12/2020 10:04:31 AM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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While it's unclear whether Trump's veiled appeal to racial anxieties will help his poll numbers...

And we're all forced to pay for this dumb, leftist c*nt's salary.

10 posted on 08/12/2020 10:04:51 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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Trump is correct.

They want us to live in hives near mass transportation hubs.


11 posted on 08/12/2020 10:05:39 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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The Left has been working on restrictive zoning changes for decades.


12 posted on 08/12/2020 10:07:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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the focus on single-family homes has touched on a contentious debate in a growing number of communities

It's called quality of life. and it is open and available to everyone who works for it.

13 posted on 08/12/2020 10:07:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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and most of all intolerance of Blight and Crime (drugs, gangs, prostitution, violence, the urban “package”) because, well, you are Selfish, and of course, Racist. Ask a highschool student.

...and don’t forget discrimination. Discrimination was our strength until the Supreme Court banned it.

Where’s my like button?


14 posted on 08/12/2020 10:08:12 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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Why are critical thinkers letting the wacky left get away with conflating (good word in our struggles) discriminatory lending and real estate with single-family houses?

Economically successful of all ethnicity have universally longed to live in a place of their own, away from the barbarity of dictatorships, religious oppression, communal slavery, modern feudalism, etc.

NPR and its cast of young socialists, unburdened by any historical perspective parrot the notion that “Your parents’ and grandparents’ dreams were wrong. What they worked hard their whole live for giving you a better life was a waste.”

I hope someone with enough resources can wake the hell out of what american-loving electorate remains. How many of us have died and how many of the american-hating Bolsheviks have turned 18, arrived by land, sea and air, or have been seething since 2016 when they thought they finally had their moment and were planning America’s funeral with glee.


15 posted on 08/12/2020 10:08:50 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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Apparently Cuomo's offer of a drink involves being roofied and dragged back into New York City.
16 posted on 08/12/2020 10:08:55 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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After President Trump wins his second term, it would good to see NPR lose its funding for its political fake news bs posing as news.

"While it's unclear whether Trump's veiled appeal to racial anxieties will help his poll numbers, the focus on single-family homes has touched on a contentious debate in a growing number of communities. Around the country, cities and states are grappling with how zoning rules have deeply codified racial inequity and exacerbated climate change."

17 posted on 08/12/2020 10:09:31 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump claims that if Biden wins Americans will have to 'learn to speak Chinese'!!)
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We can’t have stable,quiet,clean and safe suburbs.If major cities are cesspools then the suburbs must be as well.


18 posted on 08/12/2020 10:09:39 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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“Trump’s veiled appeal to racial anxieties”

The author assumes that good homes, quality education and low crime have a race. So, Lauren, you racist, what race would that be?


19 posted on 08/12/2020 10:11:25 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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“While it’s unclear whether Trump’s veiled appeal to racial anxieties...”

What bullsh**. I have a black family living next to me who is NOT down with any of this insanity being pushed by the left. He is armed to the teeth.

The left is really miscalculating here.


20 posted on 08/12/2020 10:11:44 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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