Biden's infrastructure plan calls for
cities to limit single-family zoning
and instead build affordable housing
USA Today,
by
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/14/2021 6:20:25 PM
President Joe Biden wants cities to put more apartment buildings and multifamily units, such as converted garages, in areas traditionally zoned for single-family housing. As part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, cities would allow for smaller lots and for apartment buildings with fewer than six units to be built next to a traditional house. Current zoning laws that favor single-family homes – known as exclusionary zoning – have disproportionately hurt low-income Americans. Many of them can't afford to buy a big lot of land, leaving them trapped in crowded neighborhoods earmarked in the past for Black and brown residents, while white
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/14/2021 6:22:40 PM (No. 754929)
There’s no such thing as “affordable” housing considering the enormous costs involved these days.
18 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/14/2021 6:26:17 PM (No. 754931)
Eat my shorts, Joe
32 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 4/14/2021 6:27:31 PM (No. 754932)
"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." Don't these morons realize that people want to live in a single family suburb ***because*** it's a single family suburb? If you make a suburb into Compton, you just killed the golden goose.
28 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 4/14/2021 6:28:49 PM (No. 754935)
After more than a year of a Covid lockdown, Joe wants people to live closer together? C`mon man, talks sense!
24 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/14/2021 6:28:51 PM (No. 754936)
OK, how bout building some projects in Bear, Delaware?
32 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/14/2021 6:33:26 PM (No. 754942)
Oh, the poor dears. I couldn't afford a big lot until I went through 25 years of apartments and small homes on small lots. If you want to make it in America you must start early, get a degree that will land you a good job and save some money in an account combined with your wife's income. Or be born black and skip all of the work. If a six-unit, low-income apartment building went up next to my house I would be out in a matter of months. Having your property stolen from your driveway, yard and patio is not worth it. How many of those are going up in Joe's neighborhood?
23 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 4/14/2021 6:37:12 PM (No. 754945)
If your town takes the federal money, your town will no longer control it's own zoning. DON'T TAKE THE MONEY.
38 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/14/2021 6:53:33 PM (No. 754958)
Considering the work from home environment I expect to see a boom in rural housing rather than suburbs. I've told my kids to seriously think about a small farm around a town outside the city limits. Telecommute and go to office once a week if necessary. And if the Dems trash everything you have enough land to grow your own food. (and put Grandpa up, lol.)
21 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/14/2021 6:56:30 PM (No. 754960)
Just what we need. More ghettos.
Gotta make room for all those illegal immigrants that Biden's human trafficking program brought into the country.
The climate change fanatics believe all people should live in cities. Maybe Biden gonna start a program to force people into the cities. China does that.
This is aimed at Republican run states, btw. States like Florida and Texas.
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
raspberry 4/14/2021 7:02:30 PM (No. 754963)
This is the plan to make the suburbs progressive Democrat. They will threat to end Federal highway and other funds to force inner city resident acceptance into suburban neighborhoods and schools.
13 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/14/2021 7:06:57 PM (No. 754970)
Soon, we can have our suburbs looking just like the communist hellholes in Cuba, Russia, and China.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
SALady 4/14/2021 7:09:27 PM (No. 754971)
I am old enough to remember all those non-descript block apartment buildings in the old Soviet Union and East Germany where the government gave you a terrible apartment for your way too large family to live in comfortably, and you were stuck there for generations.
This isn't about "affordable" housing. It's about more government control of the peasants -- which is the first thing every Communist dictatorship does (well, actually the second, with taking away all guns "for public safety" being the first)!!!!!
17 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 4/14/2021 7:13:40 PM (No. 754973)
We have forty-five acres to fall back on, if necessary. I refuse to live in an instant ghetto, which is what the "affordable housing" developments are.
15 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/14/2021 7:39:22 PM (No. 754988)
Hey, Jobama - you haven't see systemic white racism until you try to destroy neighborhoods we've worked hard to live in. But first you have to confiscate our weapons, right?
11 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sardonic 4/14/2021 7:52:48 PM (No. 755001)
Agenda 21 anybody?
9 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/14/2021 8:09:07 PM (No. 755010)
Yes, we retired on 40 acres and we wondered if we were too far from town. Our area and little town is not off the main highway. The retired military intelligence guys we have met here said its good one has to make an effort to even find us. I see many conservatives finding really red areas in low population counties like ours. They are getting acreage and homes, living within their means as debt free as possible.
11 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/14/2021 8:10:47 PM (No. 755012)
Big boss xiden. He's in charge of everything and nothing.
6 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/14/2021 8:11:59 PM (No. 755013)
Yes #8 and get it fast as those rural areas within easy commutes to jobs are growing fast and prices going up every month. Our kids are working on it now. My best wishes for your kids to get safe and settled!!
6 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
bobn.t 4/14/2021 8:19:15 PM (No. 755022)
Like the Ghetttos in many black/libnut run cities.
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/14/2021 8:23:47 PM (No. 755027)
Forget about kids having yards to play in, dogs for pets, gardens… just make room for more illegal aliens.
7 people like this.
Social engineering. I don't like it.
7 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/14/2021 8:34:50 PM (No. 755037)
It doesn't matter to these morons where people want to live or how they want to live.
They want to tell us how to live, They can kiss where the sun don't shine.
8 people like this.
Start on Martha’s Vineyard, please.
Fill it full of Somali Muslims.
13 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Debrawr 4/14/2021 8:55:07 PM (No. 755053)
This was dreamed up by Obama, though he didn't have the votes to get it passed.
Now we know who's running the country.
10 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 4/14/2021 9:16:02 PM (No. 755070)
Bull.
Don't go for it.
3 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/14/2021 9:29:12 PM (No. 755084)
Communists decide what the people need. Communists decide where the money is to be invested. Your voice isn't necessary.
6 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/14/2021 9:30:05 PM (No. 755087)
The deliberate ignorance and/or indifference to constitutional limits of federal enumerated powers is breathtaking. These people are simply not Americans.
6 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Phantomll 4/14/2021 9:39:16 PM (No. 755091)
President Trump warned us of this during the campaign.
11 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/14/2021 9:57:49 PM (No. 755099)
Second amendment applicable here. The federal government isn't in charge of every darn thing, even if they think so.
I miss Trump.
8 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Penney 4/14/2021 10:29:45 PM (No. 755110)
The dem pols tried this before and the result was not to improve any lives but rather to spread crime & decay to the safer, more productive areas, mainly in the burbs. Why does Biden want to force yet another failure?!
3 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 4/14/2021 11:50:54 PM (No. 755139)
Start with Delaware and DC - Joe & show us how it’s done.
4 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/14/2021 11:52:14 PM (No. 755141)
Penny, don't bother asking "Why?", you will not get a truthful answer.
The correct reply is "HELL NO!!"
2 people like this.
FTA: "have disproportionately hurt low-income Americans. Many of them can't afford to buy a big lot of land, leaving them trapped in crowded neighborhoods "
SO, what we are going to do to solve that is make sure that the only neighborhoods which are not crowded are those were the fabulously wealthy live.
By definition, if you live in high density housing, you live in a crowded neighborhood.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/15/2021 7:39:14 AM (No. 755315)
There goes the neighborhood.......
0 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 4/15/2021 9:26:00 AM (No. 755455)
This is/was Al Gore's plan. They never give up. Rural areas land costs are climbing as the availability of high speed internet spreads the city folks are pouring into our communities and bringing their big city crap with them.
1 person likes this.
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Many cities and whole states limit high-density housing units for a wide variety of reasons. It's not racism - it's having a pleasant neighborhood that is not jammed with traffic and noise.