Posted on 07/29/2020 1:11:18 PM PDT by knighthawk
President Trump told suburban voters in a tweet on Wednesday they will “no longer be bothered or financially hurt” by having low-income housing in their neighborhood after his administration revoked an Obama-era housing rule.
The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or the AFFH rule, was designed to eliminate racial disparities in housing by telling jurisdictions that receive housing funds they must assess patterns of housing discrimination and come up with a plan to diminish them.
“I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood," Trump tweeted Wednesday. “Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down. I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!”
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So jealous! Grew up vacationing on Green River Lake. Really miss those days...
Lol, “now?”
I have to applaud Trump for this!
When I lived in the Seattle area I spent many an hour innertubing on Green River as a kid and early 20’s. Now we can canoe on the Green River in KY, and sail on Green River lake. It’s really beautiful around here.
I call it “The Garden of Eden but with more chiggers”.
I mean, if the local community has problems, and wants to correct them by zoning some places for low-income housing, that is fine — the feds have nothing to do with this.
This is getting rid of the Obama rule that said the federal government could force a suburb to build low-income housing they do NOT need, so that people in the city can move out to the suburbs. And worse, that the cities could force regional solutions to problems the cities have, and essentially take over the suburbs, taking the tax base and using it for the cities, or banning individual housing altogether, not fixing roads anymore and forcing people into public transportation.
It isn't "low income" housing, it's subsidized housing. The correct term should be "affordable housing". When William Levitt saw the need for affordable housing for GIs returning from WW II, he built low-cost affordable housing for them, creating communities called Levittown throughout the Northeast. He didn't give them to the GIs, they bought them.
If you want to live in a nicer community you can either pay more, or work to make wherever you are a nicer place to live. Demanding handouts that are then taken for granted does nothing to improve a neighborhood. Residents who look after themselves and their neighbors, and who take pride in their neighborhood do that.
Of course, this happens all the time, and goes by the derogatory name gentrification. A "gentrified" neighborhood is one that's actually improved because the residents look after their property and take pride in it. Once that happens, property values naturally rise because more people want to live in nicer communities that are more affordable than higher-end communities.
Randy Moss did too. He actually moved into an area which had a high percentage of seniors in FL.
“...Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or the AFFH rule, was designed to eliminate racial disparities in housing by telling jurisdictions that receive housing funds they must assess patterns of housing discrimination and come up with a plan to diminish them.”
Do not underestimate this issue as one of the top issues, up there with defund the police, that Trump should be campaigning on.It is great to see him putting it out there. This one issue will be instrumental getting those dumb suburban women back to his column election day.They won’t admit to their friends that they will be voting for Trump but they will pull the Trump lever for their own suburban safety and maintain the stability of their suburban town that Biden wants to destroy
When hasn’t he been accused of racism?
Watch what he does now that the MSM are hyperventilating about racism
Curious that you never see section 8 housing going up in Martha’s Vinyard ...
.....as opposed to the other 364 days in the last year.
Those of us in the suburbs don't prefer city living and we certainly don't like cities exporting all their downside (crowded roads, inadequate infrastructure, sky high taxes, crime, etc) to out suburbs.
Lol. It’s so true it hurts. Trump got racist armor because of the left’s derangement. Congratulations Democratics.
Not much crime among that demographic.
I’m not talking about a “free pad in the city”. there are no “fee pads”. Living in LA is extremely expensive. And the houses are nice...no suburbs in city limits.
Also, because the city is large, the suburbs are a massive drive to and from most high paying jobs in the city. Plus we have the museums, the parks, the restaurants and shopping in the city.
It may be different where you are. But odd to find cheap land in city limits.
Public housing is a singularly insidious policy for a free people. It
- creates dependency
- removes personal responsibility
- incentivizes unemployment
- incentivizes black markets
- violates property rights
- entrenches poverty
- spreads poverty and its effects wherever it goes
Just a quick list there.
Sometimes the only solution is to leave.
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