Posted on 06/20/2022 4:30:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The war on America's suburbs has opened a new front. Buried in President Biden's proposed budget for 2023 is a $10-billion bribe for suburban communities to remove zoning barriers to high-density housing. The federal government promises the suburbs funding for street improvements, traffic control, and water and sewer lines if they adopt "housing-forward policies" that eliminate single-family zoning and open their communities to "affordable housing."
This is no benign endeavor to provide more housing. It is a strong signal to Democrat-controlled states to gear up the decades-long efforts to bludgeon affluent communities into submitting to "housing justice" and providing their "fair share."
The New York metro area has been ground zero for efforts to erode local zoning, and if Democrats retain the governorship and supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, the pressure will be on New York's officials to enact legislation — first to weaken local zoning and then to destroy it. Their new tools are accessory dwelling units (ADUs), which can be apartments over garages and standalone dwellings, and large multi-family transit-oriented developments (TODs), surrounding train stations and bus depots.
These efforts are being fueled by housing activists and progressive think-tanks like the Brookings Institution, which declared in a January 2022 article: "By some measures, the suburban counties around New York City have some of the worst exclusionary zoning in the nation."
To understand the hostility to the suburbs, some background is useful. The initial strategy was to usurp local control through litigation brought by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It had limited success because to eviscerate local control, HUD had to prove racial discrimination, which by the 1980s and 1990s had largely been eradicated. So HUD tried other tactics.
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It was sort of like visiting another country without flying or a passport.
But with the same shitty weather…
The destruction of the middle class--the bourgeoisie--one of their top priorities. That's communism101.
Karl Marx said that the bourgeoisie is the greatest impediment to the establishment of the worldwide communist "utopia."
Millions of people have fallen for his fundamentally evil designs.
Marx acknowledged that horrible, violent class warfare and the establishment of a police state would be necessary--even desirable, which speaks volumes about Marx the man!
And one of the glaring fallacies of his absurd design is that once this global police state had established worldwide communism, the need for government would MIRACULOUSLY vanish and everyone would live in harmony without government and without any need for government. In other words: "A miracle will take place."
Anybody who falls for that kind of snake oil is a fool, but there are obviously millions of fools in the world--and that's not the only flaw in his load of hogwash.
The part they can’t say out loud: all high density apartment buildings vote majority Democrat. Suburbs have swing voters. Planting one high density apartment building is an easy way to throw an area to a Democrat majority, 100% of the time. It’s low-hanging fruit for establishing permanent one-party rule.
They want to GHETTOIZE all of us!!
Agenda 2030 is right around the corner. Rural land will go back to wild like they want it to.
If the globalists get their way.
Anything to do with freedom, opportunity and peace of mind is evil to democrats.
“They want to flood the suburbs with criminals, gangs, rapists, and murderers.”
While simultaneously disarming us. The resulting crime and victimization will enable them to establish martial law and complete social control.
“Sensible gun safety” is their means of achieving despotism.
I've always thought of zoning as unconstitutional under the "takings clause".
In a free country you should be able to do whatever you want with your property.
I thought it was the meddling big government leftists that got zoning started.
“housing justice”
Another commie utopian tactic in their never ending race-to-the-bottom quest to turn us into a third world hellhole.
BS. So if we went back to slavery ( free labor) then everything we use/need will be free? The cost of labor is about 5% of the cost of a durable goods we buy, if that.
There are no "blue" states. There are only blue cities. Remove the blue cities and we have 50 red states.
Here in FL, I would say the strongest contrast will be between Broward and Palm Beach counties. Broward is perhaps 80% Democratic voters and was “built out” a couple of decades ago. Palm Beach is closer to 50/50 in voter registration and a bit more conservative in local governance than in the representatives sent to DC. West Palm Beach is enormous, and will have decades of new residential development ahead. Nearly everything being built is a gated community.
Broward will fall for the federal funds, Palm Beach County, I don’t think so. So, you will have contiguous counties to compare and contrast in a few decades, and I don’t think it will look so good for Broward.
I see you went to the AOC school of economics. You’re clueless about what causes inflation, but I’ll give you a hint. A definition of inflation is too much money chasing too few goods.
That’s okay with me...for the close in democrat ones around Chicago like Evanston, Oak Park etc.
Trump was right!
CT has already done this with a state law that says any developer including a few deeded, and so long-term, “affordable” units can build without the local town being able to impose any of its zoning limits.
They are essentially forcing the towns on the ocean to become mini-NYCs. Truly horrific and un-American.
“Housing justice” lends new meaning to the phrase “If you build it, they will come”. They WILL come.....and they will TAKE it.
If you own land and local zoning isn't to your liking, it's annoying. But it's local, so it's not unconstitutional--USC is silent on the subject. And that makes sense, since, if you don't like the zoning in one place, you can sell and move to somewhere it's different.
Where I grew up, it was the developers bribing town officials to down-zone to quarter-acre lots so they could bring in the urban people that drove us crazy, and eventually drove us elsewhere.
Let the Demented One lead the way by opening up his own neighborhood in Delaware. Tear down your privacy fence, Joe!
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