Posted on 04/28/2021 7:26:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Biden wants to transform the character of many American cities and suburbs by building more apartment buildings in quiet and frequently disproportionately White neighborhoods of single-family homes.
The Biden administration sees remnants of America’s segregationist past in what it calls “exclusionary” zoning laws, which allow only single-family homes in large swaths of cities and suburbs.
As part of a racial equity agenda the president is pursuing in his massive infrastructure plan, Mr. Biden would send federal grants to cities if they eliminate those zoning laws and allow more lower-income people, often minorities, in areas that typically have better schools and fewer social ills that plague poor, inner-city communities.
Zoning laws that allow only single-family houses “keep families from moving to neighborhoods with more opportunities for them and their kids,” the administration said in a fact sheet describing its $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan.
The administration also is arguing that increasing the supply of housing by encouraging more apartment buildings would bring down the cost of rent.
The idea has been proposed before, at since at least the Obama administration, and always runs into stiff opposition.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed in August, President Trump and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson derided the idea of federal government discouragement of single-family zoning. They called it a policy of “coercion, domination and control.”
Mr. Trump and Mr. Carson accused Democrats of plotting to destroy the suburbs.
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that’s what the left does- They Destroy Everything!
i think he was being sarcastic
Oh please. Republicans are like hungry tigers waiting to pounce!
Those better schols will then decline in quality accelerated by the single families moving further out away from the Democrat city and beginning seriously to home-school and support new private schools.
It’s the New Ghetto Program.
disproportionately White neighborhoods
what is disproportionately in a country that is majority white?
will white families be forced to move to disproportionately black or disproportionately asian or disproportionately (name ethnicity here) neighborhoods?
but when they do move there voluntarily, aren’t they already demonized and accused of ‘gentrification’ and ‘recolonialization’ ?
GOP Establishment was in on the steal. They despise true Conservatives and always have, and love scamming us.
Maybe you want to kiss and make up with this abusive spouse. A lot of us would prefer to blow their head off, once and for all.
You can lament the loss of two RINO Senators from Georgia, if you like. Besides Hawley, Kennedy, and maybe one or two others, I would love to see every single one of them primaried.
They are worse scum than the Democrats.
The silver lining could be the teachers' union loses membership and becomes less powerful as public school enrollment shrinks.
So THEY want to bring the fight right to MY FRONT DOOR - What is going to wake up the pacifist American now? You can afford it fine - but lower the building standards - lets start in duffuses DE neighborhood first - that dumb-ass wouldn’t know the diff living in his basement under his daddy nobams toilet anyway!
Ghetto-ing up white neighborhoods...yep, Obama is finishing up his agenda.
In other words turn my beautiful upper middle class neighborhood into a ghetto shithole. But Biden won’t have any such thing intruding into his estates.
Without a doubt. My youngest graduated high school last year, and I was already thinking that if I still had children in school, I would be home schooling. They certainly do not need to get hit with all this CRT-BS.
Mountain View has had lots of apartment buildings for decades. It has more now than ever, but they aren’t cheap.
What family wants to allow the savages in the streets that we’ve been seeing on the news for the last year into their neighborhood? It’s easy for the out-of-touch politicians to pontificate from their ivory castles in DC about the lives the little ppl must endure in the name of “equity.” But they won’t be experiencing it so they can STFU!
Careful now, some here might actually think you meant that.
It’s a good thing millions of illegal aliens don’t need a place to live
That is my fear also. 2022 is giving us one more chance, I hope we don't blow it!
“will white families be forced to move to disproportionately black or disproportionately asian or disproportionately (name ethnicity here) neighborhoods?”
The USSR had a similar plan, called internal migration.
No wonder Russia is still worried about the US and spends so much on defense. Who knows the dangers of a totalitarian government any better?
Look at the bright side. If you have land outside the suburbs they are about to infect with their idiotic idea, your property just became more valuable. I’ll bet you that every arsehole in dc has been trying to buy up said property for that very reason. Cause and effect. They cause it and then invest on the predictable effect. They cause the rash and then sell the salve for the rash. They are “CROOKS” it’s what they do!
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