Posted on 05/29/2019 2:32:27 PM PDT by jmcenanly
One of the main indicators used by economists to measure the health of the nation’s economy is housing starts – the number of private homes being built around the nation. In 2018 housing starts fell in all four regions of the nation, representing the biggest drop since 2016.
While many economists point to issues such as higher material costs as a reason for the drop in housing starts, a much more ominous reason may be emerging. Across the nation, city councils and state legislatures are beginning to remove zoning protections for single-family neighborhoods, claiming they are racist discrimination designed to keep certain minorities out of such neighborhoods. In response to these charges some government officials are calling for the end of single-family homes in favor of multiple family apartments.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanpolicy.org ...
Some Covfeve will fix that.
“I think writing in ALL CAPS is racist.”
I say that the shift key is racist.
I've noticed that in most socialist countries very few people live in private homes, have private yards or much of anything in the way of entertainment..... Check it out on google maps...
All kulaks must die!
Cabrini-Green here we come.
— This is the so is,ust vision
Some Covfeve will fix that.
Exactly!
“Zoning was the start of the loss of our property rights.”
Yes. So far it’s zoning for, but zoning against will start.
Yes, it is. Put the word out to all your lefty adversaries. Let them live in little cubes like is more and more common in Tokyo.
That way, it takes fewer matches to get rid of them.
— “beginning to remove zoning protections for single-family neighborhoods”
“How is “removing” zoning restrictions an assault on private property?
If a property owner wishes to build something other than a single family home on a piece of property then should they not be able to do so?”
He wrote “remove protections” not “remove restrictions”.
They will only allow multi resident buildings. Won’t zone for single dwelling houses.
This accusation is insane.
In many areas black people are also buying and building houses.
to the modern left EVERYTHING IS RACISM!
except hating whitey
“They rally for free range chickens, but put people in coops.”
Sounds like you created a tagline!
The world has lost it’s mind, and IMHO it’s by design.
No, it isn’t - single-family homes generally house taxpayers, and zoning areas for them only makes someone confident enough to invest 30 years of monthly payments into it (while hoping to at least get back the purchase price later).
That inevitably results in overly white/Asian neighborhoods, with an added twist (at least here in NJ): Local services are funded locally, so neighboring sh!tholes generally have to pay their own way - without being able to avail themselves of the better schools or emergency services available to the single-family ‘burbs where people pay their own way.
I’ve posted for years that operating rental properties in the NYC metro area is now akin to the Quartering Act (by which colonists had to house and feed British troops); now you’ll simply have to house gibsmedats instead. People who bought rental properties decades ago originally turned up their noses at Section 8 tenants; now they need them or they lose the properties (because the government pays the rent on time, even if the property is slowly destroyed).
The problem with changing zoning laws is that no sane person would invest 30 years of mortgage payments in a property if the neighbor can demolish a single-family home and put up a multi-family non-owner-occupied welfare hive.
Zoning laws protect the homeowners toiling away to live there; they don’t want to see their area collapse to house foreign migrants, welfarians, etc.. Don’t take my word for it; this problem is causing many people to re-think buying homes.
They need to shoehorn in a few million more illegals and make the place look like TJ.
Here in NJ young Americans don’t need or want single-family homes; why pay so much in taxes if most won’t breed anyway? 3/4 of our property taxes are for schools, and childless taxpayers see no point in supporting imported foreign student bodies.
Most new constructions I see are multi-family hives for drones or tightly-packed multi-families; the former have “affordable housing” set-aside requirements that have Americans steering clear of them as well.
Zoning has always been about protecting those working 30 years to pay to live there; would you buy a nice new car if the government could switch it for a used Yugo whenever it is politically expedient? - and that would only be 5 years of much smaller payments at most thrown away/lost.
At this point in time, everything is “racists”. Hell, even the Man in the Moon is “racists”.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.