Interesting article. This is also in keeping with UN Agenda 21.
Joe Biden’s disastrous plans for
America’s suburbs
July 21, 2020 | 7:26pm
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If you live in the
suburbs or you’re a city dweller eyeing a move to a quiet cul-de-sac where your
kids can play outside, you need to know about Joe Biden’s plan for a federal
takeover of local zoning laws.
The ex-veep wants to
ramp up an Obama-era social-engineering scheme called Affirmatively Furthering
Fair Housing that mercifully barely got underway before President Trump took
office, vowing to stop it.
Biden’s plan is to
force suburban towns with single-family homes and minimum lot sizes to build
high-density affordable housing smack in the middle of their leafy
neighborhoods — local preferences and local control be damned.
Starting in 2015,
President Barack Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development floated a
cookie-cutter requirement for “balanced housing” in every suburb. “Balanced”
meant affordable even for people who need federal vouchers. Towns were
obligated to “do more than simply not discriminate,” as a 2013 HUD proposal
explained. Rather, towns had to make it possible for low-income minorities to
choose suburban living and provide “adequate support to make their choices
possible.”
Had the rule been
implemented nationwide, towns everywhere would have had to scrap zoning, build
bigger water and sewer lines to support high-density living, expand schools and
social services and add mass transit. All pushing up local taxes. Towns that
refused would lose their federal aid.
The rule was one of
the worst abuses of the Obama-Biden administration — a raw power grab
masquerading as racial justice.
In Westchester, County
Executive Rob Astorino battled the Obama-Biden administration for
years, successfully resisting the baseless smear of racism. Zoning laws limit
what can be built in a neighborhood in neutral fashion, Astorino explained, not
who can live there.
To be absolutely
clear, denying anyone the chance to rent or buy a home because of his race is
abhorrent and illegal. It should be prosecuted whenever it still happens.
African Americans have
been steadily leaving inner cities and choosing suburban lifestyles, according
to Brookings Institution data. Many families — of all races — want the peace of
mind of letting their kids ride bikes around quiet neighborhood streets. That’s
what zoning laws provide.
The real barrier to
suburban living is money. Living in the ’burbs isn’t cheap. HUD Secretary Ben
Carson told a House Committee last May that “people can only afford to live in
certain places.” It’s “not because George Wallace is blocking the door.”
Biden and the equality
warriors are using accusations of racism to accomplish something different.
Their message is: You worked and saved to move to the suburbs, but you can’t
have that way of life unless everyone else can, too.
Count on Trump to make
Biden’s war on the suburbs a key issue in the election. In his Rose Garden news
conference Thursday, the president came out swinging, warning that Biden would
“totally destroy the beautiful suburbs”
by “placing far-left Washington bureaucrats in charge of local zoning.”
In response, the left
and its media allies played the race card. As usual. On MSNBC, Princeton
University Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said, “I hear the words of a racist.” CNN
accused the president of fearmongering “white suburban voters.” But it’s CNN
that is being racist — by assuming that only whites own homes in the suburbs.
Trump is talking to
suburban homeowners of all ethnicities. If you buy a house in a neighborhood
with quarter-acre zoning, you don’t want a high-density housing complex built
at the end of the street.
The president won the
suburbs in 2016, but polls show Trump trailing in the suburbs largely because
of opposition from women. They need to focus on what’s at stake for their families.
Tens of thousands of
New Yorkers have fled the city in the
past four months, many of them spending their savings and taking out a mortgage
to buy a home in the suburbs. The same dynamic is playing out in many other
regions nationwide. For these transplants, the stakes are high.
The outcome of the
November election will determine the value of their new home, the size of their
property-tax bill and the character of the town they now call home.
Betsy McCaughey is a
former lieutenant governor of New York.
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