Obama Winning War on Suburbs- US Apartment Construction Soars, Home Ownership Tanks to 20-Yr Low

Reaganite Republican ^ | 23 April 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Covert scheme to cram us all into socialist cities and 

'compact' America along Euro lines moving along briskly...

Our disingenuous, hyper-left president's myriad hidden agendas are hard to keep track of sometimes, but one that caught my eye a couple years back was betrayed in a 2012 book by Stanley Kurtz: Obama aims to destroy the famed American suburban lifestyle, cram us all into tight city neighborhoods, spike the price of gas/taxes, put us in 30-mi-range electric cars, etc. The idea is to end urban sprawl while mixing cities and suburbs into one tighter, mediocre mix. Like court-ordered bussing destroyed schools for all, this would destroy suburbs- for all:

One approach is to force suburban residents into densely packed cities by blocking development on the outskirts of metropolitan areas, and by discouraging driving with a blizzard of taxes, fees, and regulations. 

Step two is to move the poor out of cities by imposing low-income-housing quotas on development in middle-class suburbs. 

Step three is to export the controversial 'regional tax-base sharing' scheme currently in place in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area to the rest of the country. Under this program, a portion of suburban tax money flows into a common regional pot, which is then effectively redistributed to urban, and a few less well-off 'inner-ring suburban, municipalities.

Now we have news that both the young and those losing their homes to the bank are renting instead of buying -vacancy rates are very low- and they can't even construct apartments fast enough in this country.

Meanwhile, home-ownership-rates have tanked, now at 63.9% -a 20-year-low- and still dropping... 

Better to have all the peons in one place -with no real estate equity- so as to control them easier, keep them dependent on the government teat -watch everything closely- and inflict socialist paradise upon them.

Like most of Obama's radical, undisclosed schemes, this one is progressing swimmingly... with seemingly no resistance to any of it from the guys that are supposed to be on our side.

Does anybody but far-left freaks actually want this?

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[Reaganite Republican]

Although utilities there in the 1990s were fine

[combat_boots]

A relative of mine went on a mission to the USSR and said the same thing about hot water.

The elderly got to the point they could pay their rent or eat.