This is actually the best thing Trump has done in several weeks. Smart politically and in the culture wars.
We have the same problem here in Los Angeles. it is expensive in the city. Yet they are building low income condos for the people who are living in the tents or on the ground.
Hurrah! F you BHO.
This is what happened to my wifes parents neighborhood. Nice safe middle class. Brought in projects 10 years ago. Now all the stores closed. Crime skyrocketed. Litter and graffiti everywhere.
Both her parents are now dead.
We drove to her old homestead last year. She cried for 2 hours. Said she wished she never went back.
Trump will now be accused of racism.
A town I lived in years ago was voted among “safest towns in America.”
No longer. Leftists, using the courts and also state government, forced some unwanted Sec. 8 housing on it. Now, a decade or two later, while not yet a total disaster, the town has much more petty crime, violations of noise and large gatherings ordnances, quality of life stuff, etc…. On the 4th of July night, someone in a local playground was discharging firearms into the air. The suspects fled into the (you guessed it) local subsidized housing development.
I live in a nice neighborhood in Portland. That was until the city of Portland forced the neighborhood to allow a big apartment complex to be built here. More traffic, noise, cars on the street, destroyed the views and values of some existing homes.
Apparently the city decided we needed more dense housing despite that there were some townhomes up the street that should have fulfilled this criteria. Neighbors tried to fight this off...spent a lot of money but of course the officials in Portland didn’t care about us.
Everything is “generally speaking”, but “generally speaking”, does low character bring on poverty, or does poverty bring on low character?
You Valet your expensive Car when you go out, you don’t park it on the Street in front of a Crack House.
We used to live in a very nice upper middle class Neighborhood in S.CA, Orange County. Over the years they built multi Unit Apartment Complexes in the area, many just blocks away from our $750,000 Home.
They are full of Illegal Invaders and the Crime Rate goes up and up. Lots of Car Burglaries, other Property Crimes and more Assaults every day.
The Streets surrounding them are packed with Cars because there are multiple people living in the Units without sufficient on Site Parking available.
My Wife is still part of a local Facebook Group and reads all about it. It is saddening.
If there is already one under construction behind my property, will this help me or am I already screwed???
Every woke suburban Karen and Chad will feign outrage while secretly celebrating on the inside. If you really look at the actions of these Karens and Chads, you’ll see the biggest proponents of NIMBY attitudes anywhere. They want low-income housing, just not in their pristine, upscale neighborhoods.
“There goes the neighborhood” is abdolute fact.
It destroys our neighborhoods. That's not racial because I know so many of all Americans who don't want TRASH.
I have to applaud Trump for this!
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.
“...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
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 ...