Biden administration squeezing suburbs
out of existence with zoning laws
Washington Examiner,
by
Barnini Chakraborty
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/3/2021 9:25:43 AM
A house with a white picket fence and a big backyard might have been a staple of the American dream once upon a time, but if the Biden administration gets its way, the dream could soon be out of reach for millions of people.As part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the Biden administration is pushing local governments to allow apartment buildings in neighborhoods that are restricted to single-family homes. The administration claims it's a way to ease a national affordable housing shortage and combat racial injustice in the housing market.Current zoning laws that favor single-family homes, known as exclusionary zoning,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
spacer 6/3/2021 9:32:25 AM (No. 804638)
You and yours first Mr. Biden.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mobyclik 6/3/2021 9:37:15 AM (No. 804647)
FTA: ''As part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the Biden administration is pushing local governments...''
Where I live, the local governments will tell Premier Biden to shove it...and will be backed by the wonderful Governor DeSantis.
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#1 Yep, I'll rent my next apartment when they build it in the Hampton's. Or how about an ocean side apartment in Malibu.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 6/3/2021 9:43:45 AM (No. 804657)
Fortunately there is still a lot of open land in the U.S. When apartment buildings with the usual suspects living there come, their will be some of their ilk with more money who will want to escape the actual city and will buy up the homes of the white flighters who can then go elsewhere.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/3/2021 9:49:16 AM (No. 804665)
Hang on to your house in the country and buy land.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 6/3/2021 9:49:46 AM (No. 804666)
You would think Biden would learn something after a 14 month lockdown because of the Covid virus.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/3/2021 9:52:51 AM (No. 804670)
Well the Democrats claim that suburban “Moms” voted for Biden by large pluralities, so you have to figure that they have no problem with their suburban neighborhoods being included in rezoned areas with newly build low income apartments and duplexes, that used to be called public housing projects, across the street from their one family homes of tumbling worth. So I guess you can say those Biden loving suburban “Moms” are getting the government that they apparently voted for.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 6/3/2021 10:00:46 AM (No. 804677)
As with everything Marxist, there is no such thing as racial injustice in housing. One can either afford the house in that nice neighborhood, or one cannot. It has nothing to do with skin color. I live in a neighborhood with several black families. They work hard, their kids are nice, and they maintain the properties they bought. Across the street are homes that are worth more than twice of my home. There are black families that live there too. Again, the properties are well maintained and the few kids of those families I've met, are really good kids who I assume do well in school. I couldn't afford a home in that neighborhood across the street, so I bought a home I could afford. Is that racial injustice? Of course not. Do I wish I could have afforded a home from across the street? Of course, but then again, I also wish my salary was higher too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/3/2021 10:00:55 AM (No. 804678)
We need real reform in this country. The only way the federal government can push the states is by first taxing them, then giving back the taxes based on conditions. This is completely contrary to the constitution, an end run around the 10th amendment.
We see much on what is being done to us and very little on how they do it, which might help us figure out how stop it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 6/3/2021 10:18:37 AM (No. 804706)
I have lived in an apartment for 9 years. It's great for an older single person. The owners are nice.
Rather than apartments for families, how about revving up Homes for Humanity? People have to take care of their homes.
Also, consider the options of pre-fabricated homes.
There are options for economical construction without breaking the codes.
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Seattle tried this 30 years ago for "new" growth areas to forced subsidized housing when new housing was created (be it homes, condos, etc). Of course the "older established" areas, where most politicians lived, did not have to worry about it (think Magnolia neighborhood, for those familiar with the area). Look at Seattle today is all I have to say.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/3/2021 10:26:59 AM (No. 804725)
The Democrats have flooded the neighborhoods with illegals and lower classes, who have brought nothing but their trashy ways, crime, and anti-social behavior. We used to move away from this, when we could earn enough to do it, but now, the Biden's of the world force us to pay for housing the previously mentioned, so they can tag along.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 6/3/2021 10:27:29 AM (No. 804727)
When city fathers try to plant Section 8s in nice neighborhoods, not their’s, of course, city council meetings are going to get ugly.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Californian 6/3/2021 10:29:11 AM (No. 804731)
Let me guess, there won't be any new section 8 slums built anywhere near Biden, Pelosi or Schumer owned properties.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 6/3/2021 10:35:52 AM (No. 804748)
During many of President Trump's rallies we were alerted (warned) that a Biden/Harris administration was going to do this. Were his warnings ignored by housewives because of his tweets? Although these effectively irreversible encroachments will harm Democrats as well as Republicans, it's predictable that these encroachments will occur far more often in geographic area that are primarily Republican.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
downnout 6/3/2021 10:43:30 AM (No. 804759)
Well Joe, build a nice 4 story apartment building on that lovely property in Delaware. Lead by example!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/3/2021 10:56:35 AM (No. 804771)
Are the Democratps running out of things to ruin? My car, my AC, our schools and children, churches, and now my home and neighborhood.
I wonder why there is such a shortage of ammo?
7 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
marbles 6/3/2021 11:29:21 AM (No. 804802)
If your town takes federal money , they ( the fed ) control your zoning. Do NOT take the money.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Foghorn 6/3/2021 11:35:07 AM (No. 804808)
They couldn't push through the gerrymandering ideas, so this is the way to get around that problem.
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/3/2021 11:56:30 AM (No. 804829)
A friend of mine had a saying that I took to heart.
Neighbors are people that are there because I can't afford their land too.
If New Yorkers want to live stacked on top of each other that's fine with me. My only limitations are how much fence I can afford. I like my neighbors but I don't have to look out my kitchen window into theirs.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Namma 6/3/2021 12:13:23 PM (No. 804842)
it's housing for illegals
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 6/3/2021 1:13:33 PM (No. 804891)
Ok, boys and girls (and other sundry pronouns). It’s not about housing.
FTA: "The law represents a win for the growing nationwide movement to get state-level preemption of local zoning policy."
First, let the state take control, and then the states will cede control to the feds. All a neat package for CONTROL.
The “housing” issue is the squirrel to make you look so you don’t notice they’re going to control everything. I believe the term is “Communism.”
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/3/2021 1:41:16 PM (No. 804920)
Poster #10, government tyrants just needs to get their hands out of our pockets and out of our business. They have no rights to either.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
paral04 6/3/2021 1:56:09 PM (No. 804942)
People, go to your county meetings and fight any rezoning laws that include apartments or forced allocation for low cost apartments in condos. They are flooding the schools and straining the infrastructue while Biden sits in his Million dollar mansion surrounded by green on the weekends.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2021 2:03:10 PM (No. 804951)
My neighbor is a retired cop. I've known him since about 1986 when he was a local police officer, and worked at that for 25 years until he retired.
In about 1995 there were the first apartments being built in our small city, and he commented "well, we'll be getting busier now that those apartments are coming in." I was surprised, in my naivete, and asked what he meant. He patiently explained that apartments are THE centers of crime in suburbia. Criminals don't own homes, they rent apartments, and the prey on their neighbors for a few miles around mostly. Apartments come in, crime goes up. Direct connection. He said that the crime rate in 'owner occupied homes' was miniscule, and the overwhelming majority was apartments and rental homes.
I was a lot more gullible 40 years ago, learned a lot over the years, a good bit of it from police officer friends. They're the ones called when crimes are committed, and they really are the experts on it.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/3/2021 2:09:59 PM (No. 804962)
I'm just waiting too see what scheme they cook up for those of us who live on acreage out in mostly rural Texas counties, where zoning doesn't exist but neither do multi-family dwellings or commercial establishments. Nowadays, I can't imagine being left completely alone to live where and how I please but so far, so good. The downside is getting older and struggling to keep up the house and property. Creeping closer to retirement, I think about selling out and moving to one of the quiet neighborhoods outside of a near-by small town. For now, I'm reluctant to do anything other than hold what I have until I can't manage.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/3/2021 2:50:23 PM (No. 804998)
All they want to do is bring crime to your neighborhood and destroy your school system. In some democratic states its already happening. Small towns with good school systems and no crime have seen an influx of apartment buildings and subsidized housing which have affected their school systems and crime rates have risen. That's all in their plan. Destroy, destroy and destroy.......Got it....
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
columba 6/3/2021 3:48:33 PM (No. 805037)
DemocRATS want all of us to be as suffocated as those who already live in urban areas.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/3/2021 8:40:15 PM (No. 805182)
He and his mentors are so twisted.
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