Joe Biden’s disastrous plans for America’s suburbs By Betsy McCaughey July 21, 2020 | 7:26pm | UpdatedEnlarge Image A home in suburban Scarsdale, New York MORE FROM: BETSY MCCAUGHEY 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 their race is abhorrent and illegal. It should be prosecuted whenever it still happens. SEE ALSO Team Trump just called a halt to the Obama-era war on American suburbs 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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美国从以前把中国人圈在chinatown开始，一直实行种族隔离，贫富隔离，这是最失败政策。 不但造成美国每天大量枪杀死人，房地产也没怎么上涨。
纽约邮报和华盛顿时报都是joke，和昨天的oxbridge一样。
关键美国垃圾人口太多了，没办法。
五毛又开始了， 凡是对美国不利的
说的很形象。本来城市中心和交通便利的地方都让出来了，结果还要追到任何他们看着好的地方。他们怎么不想想，为什么他们的房产不增值？为什么他们的社区越来越乱？家庭最基本的单位都搞不好，整个乱套的状态，怎么可能其他会好？
拜登就是蠢坏，目标是把美国搞成第二个南非
这政策太差劲了，会毁掉好学区
它只会像西雅图市长那样要求警察增加自家门前的巡逻