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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The longer-term plan is to empty out the rural areas, not populate them.
Cabrini-Green comes to mind.
The 10 Billion is for the Democrat lawyers.
The intersection up the street got wheelchair ramps all around — eight of them. The two streets that intersect have no paths, so the ramps just lead to themselves. I know that the Feds paid for 80%, and the State paid for 15%, leaving only 5% paid by the township.
“The first dose is free, after that you pay.”
Zoning has been a big problem in our area. Some of the suburbs zone only for 5 acre lots and houses no less than 6,000 square feet.
The post-WWII part of the city (though dangerous, shotgun beside the bed at night) is much more diverse in housing—you have luxury high rises, condominiums, zero lot lines, and houses with yards. All sorts of architecture.
It really is a pain when one gets older, wants to downsize and live in the suburbs. All the condominiums are 40-50 years old and new ones are not allowed. People actually had more choices in housing after WWII and through to the 1980s than they do today.
Not that housing policy should come down from Washington, but local zoning laws really are a problem when it comes to housing, especially for people just starting out (who can only afford a small house to start a family) and people who are getting older and can’t spend hours taking care of an enormous house and yard.
The rivers are red. Barges are used to transport heavy cargo on rivers. How in heaven’s name are we going to eliminate river traffic? It’s not possible.
Or they will stop working so far from home and figure out how to survive where they are, on a parallel economy.
High Density Housing = Chicago
We are going to have a series of revolts. The Government will crush every one of them.
Except the last one.
Electing Soros AGs who won’t enforce criminal law are part of this strategy.
I haven’t forgotten Agenda 21. Have you?
Definition of Agenda 21, a short history, and the 3 E’s
So, what is Agenda 21, also referred to as “Sustainable Development”? It is NOT an environmental movement, it IS a political movement which seeks to control the world’s economy, dictates its development, captures and redistributes the world’s wealth on a national, state, and local level.
The process locks away land and resources from use by citizens, and plans a central economy, while controlling industry, transportation, food production, water, and the growth, size, and location of the population. Continue reading →
That whole parallel economy is an internet based thing touted by the handful of people that are trying to do it.
Dan Bongino is one and tries to hawk his online payment platform as an alternative to Paypal/Stripe. I have Paypal and Stripe accounts. I signed up in a few minutes with my personal info + bank account numbers.
On Bongino’s site, you have to fill out a long form application that includes giving legit business info. I presume they do a credit check too. Apples to oranges - no parallels. Bongino’s deal is more like getting a full blown merchant CC processing account.
If I want to sell a few homemade widgets on my website, I’m not spending the money and doing the paperwork to incorporate.
More parallel economy. Epoch TV. Requires an account that costs $10/mth. That’s around the same as Netflix but with a tiny percentage of the content. Townhall has premium content as do a lot of conservative news sites. If I were to subscribe to all these services, it would cost the same as rent/mortgage. Premium substack content. Monthly fee per author. Rumble. I’m signed up and can add content but to monetize it costs money and there’s not much interest there in anything other than right wing news/podcasts. You wouldn’t make a dime with a gardening channel. MeWe, the closest alternative to facebook and has many varied interests. They have business pages, yay. Costs $1.99/mth. Not bad. Invisible to the general public. Have to be logged in to even see it. Stupid and hardly a parallel to a facebook page that anyone can see.
The web based parallel economy is right wing clubs with some being private clubs and most people can’t afford the dues.
I live in rural beef cattle country. Describe a parallel economy here?
Water, Food, Shelter and if I want a normal life, electricity at least. It runs the well pump and tomorrow’s high is 99 degrees. Shelter costs most people monthly. Some food can be grown but it’s tough to grow a year’s worth every year.
Barter? What can I trade to the electric company for electricity? Mortgage company?
Make and sell stuff? What would I make? My competition is walmart, Lowes, Autozone aka China.
People could ditch all amenities and live like the 1800s IF they own their own place outright but the wives aren’t going to put up with that so it’s off to Metropolis if people can’t afford to live a somewhat normal life here.
Most rural areas had a higher population before the Great Depression than they do now. It was head to the populated areas, starve or live a very tough life, possibly homeless in the woods.
If repubs can’t get a super majority this Fall, this admin will end up causing a Great Depression 2.0 and even if repubs do get a majority, presidents rule by EO these days. That’s how Trump’s agenda was wiped away so quick. Most of it was EOs tha Biden promptly cancelled. The courts blocked Trump a lot but I don’t see them blocking very much of this admin and even when they do, this admin just ignores it and nothing happens. Can’t rely on repubs to fight when half are RINOs.
If things get bad enough, places like where I live will lose half their population as people head to more populated areas. Already happened once and the population never came back to what it was. Once in those metro/city areas, houses will be shared like Mexicans share a house with 20 people living in it because that’s the only way they’ll be able to afford it. Those will be the lucky ones.
Socialist Feudalism, with the elite at top. RHIP, as we said in the military.
Rank Has Its Privileges.
The socialist oligarchs at the top; underlings have it very good, too. Giant gap, then the serfs. No middle class.
When we went to eastern Europe & Russia it was the same feeling. Mile after mile of depressing cinderblock apartments, all very run down, no beauty or individuality. Very very depressing.
... infiltrate the burbs with voters loyal to Deep State.
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So they betray their base of soccer moms in order to replace them with the rest of their purported base of minorities.
Meanwhile, part of that *rest* consists of Hispanics who have come to despise the left and are voting R. Not just *R*, but MAGA.
Foghorn Leghorn to the DNC:
“Boy, I say boy, pay close attention to me, ‘cause you’re a burrito short of a combination plate.”
...rural people who commute 60-80 miles a day round trip won’t be able to afford to live rural and will have to move towards the cities.
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I know people who fit that description. However, I believe as the SHTF, they will stay home and use their skills locally. One such person is a very talented Head Mechanic at a factory. Guy can fix anything, do all the trades, build anything and he has family and friends to help. He will do fine on his own land in the country. He & his wife know how to raise food and have lived rural their entire lives, except for a couple of long military stints.
I wonder if the corporations and the cities need the rural worker more than the rural worker needs them in today’s environment. One thing in the Before, when a wage from a city job with the COL in the country worked out for the employee. Now....maybe not so much.
... bribing town officials...
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I live about 75 miles from Madistan, WI. Underpopulated vacation area, only some of the land suitable for farming, and the Madison middle class that vacations here considers it isolated and without amenities outside the golf/lake developments.
Madison SJWs tried to convince the County to lease them multiple acres at a reduced rate so they could construct a *summer retreat* for *underprivileged youth*. County said, nah. Several other attempts offering Federal grant money, same response.
One of the reasons we are glad we chose this area. Another was the response to burgeoning property valuations. They lowered the mil rate, restructured local government, and consolidated a couple of departments to make up for lower revenues.
all I know is my 35 year 7 11 looks like it should ne deep in the hood. 95% black customers all dat long. I feel like a minority when I walk in there... started about the time Obumfuk paid all the ghetto trash to move out to the burbs... and a lot of them cannot be evicted no matter how long theyve gone without paying...
I know the definition of inflation. Wages are a factor but marginally so. Are you one of those idiots that thinks if wages go up x then the price of a product goes up the same amount, x?
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