The globalists want to re-wild much of the country and move everyone into mega cities. Might be why people like Bill Gates are buying so much farmland.
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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My grandfather died when I was 7 or 8 but one thing I remember him saying was that he can’t stand politicians, they’re all crooks, and that one day this country will become communist. I never understood how he could paint a large segment of people as bad but now I can see how he became so jaded. God is not smiling down on the nation or the beast that is our government.
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This has been going on for a long time, they have it down to an art form. Google “Yonkers” and “Nick Wasicsko”.
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.
It is the state government working to impose state tyranny on the local elites, essentially imposing state zoning.
Exactly! He warned us about this but voters didn’t listen. He was right again!!
The funny thing is a lot of the Democrats’ support comes from snobby elitists who live in such areas and who have the biggest cases of NIMBY you’ve ever seen. Look no further than California. The same is true of Portland. It is precisely the insiders...those who have the nice houses in the safe, clean suburbs and who will fight like hell to keep it that way....who support a lot of the socialist multi culti BS for everybody else.
“Kid, get off my lawn”?
No. Kid stay out of my pasture.
This is a heartbreaking thread. One key to the greatness of our country is individual freedom.
When I taught in Shanghai in the summer of 2019, the block after block of concrete communist house was incredibly depressing. Bars on the windows; decrepit conditions. I know because I lived in one of these.
It was so great to return to the U.S. to see individual housing everywhere. One has the choice to live small or big, to dress up your house with flowers, or not. Our choices as individuals in a free country is readily seen in our choice of housing.
I’d hate to see this freedom lost.
Actually just reversing demonrat policies will lower housing costs. Lockdowns, eviction moratoriums, etc. have wreaked havoc.
One of the reasons rents are so high is mom and pops landlords are selling their rentals en masse to mostly big corporate entities who are willing to shake hands with the devil (government) and up the rent, not to mention supply and demand.
BINGO! And the stupid lockdown/eviction moratorium policies, especially in the BLUE states.
“these zoning changes aren’t about fairness any more than CoupFlu policy is about protecting public health.”
When you catch our wonderful leaders in contradictions and error it is your patriotic duty to learn that they must be right because they are perfect—and it is you who have made the error.
Otherwise you will be canceled as a right wing terrorist extremist.
:-(
Boy, do I suck at that! 😄
The globalists want to re-wild much of the country and move everyone into mega cities. Might be why people like Bill Gates are buying so much farmland.
The little secret about CT’s rural areas is that they have no town water or sewer systems—and the state will never be able to afford to build them on any scale.
The battle is won or lost on infrastructure—no new infrastructure means no new multifamily housing.
Democrats, destroying America according to plan
If this influx of people’s had jobs it may be different, but they don’t. They are all part of the gibmedats. With this brand comes all the problems associated with it.
Demon rats plan to clean up the cities by moving our problem race to the burbs.
If you’re living in that high rise utopia, riding gas tax subsidized mass transit, you don’t much care what the price of gas is. If you’re commuting 40 miles X 2 everyday, you’ll soon be forced to check the rents in that high rise utopia.
I agree. But that means you're REALLY on your own ... no road access, and no utility rights-of-way to provide water, sewer, electric power, fiber optic connections, etc.
It wasn't "big government leftists" who got zoning started. It was ordinary, delusional people who insisted they were "free" while demanding every taxpayer-funded amenity they wanted to make their lives comfortable.
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