[ April 25, 2024 ]
Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
The Biden administration announced Jan. 19 it will require all towns across America to submit “equity plans” showing how they will make it possible for low-income people to live there, by providing affordable housing, transportation and other resources.
Democrats from Biden to Hochul are targeting suburban homeowners
By Betsy McCaughey, NY Post, February 7, 2023:
Story continues below advertisementThe Biden administration is warring on local zoning laws to build high-rise apartment buildings with “affordable” units in tree-lined, single-family neighborhoods.
If you’ve worked hard to afford a suburban house with a patch of lawn where your kids can play, you’re under attack.
The Biden administration and Democrats in New York, Connecticut and other states are warring on local zoning laws to build high-rise apartment buildings with “affordable” units in tree-lined, single-family neighborhoods. All in the name of equity, meaning everyone can live in a tranquil suburb, whether they’ve earned the money to pay for it or not.
The Biden administration announced Jan. 19 it will require all towns across America to submit “equity plans” showing how they will make it possible for low-income people to live there, by providing affordable housing, transportation and other resources.
Towns that don’t meet the cookie-cutter requirement for economic diversity will lose federal funding.
No one’s denying there’s a housing shortage. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing some reasonable ideas such as allowing mother-in-law apartments and relaxing environmental restrictions on a residential building.
But Hochul’s biggest proposal, the Housing Compact, is another misguided attack on local control and single-family zoning. It would compel each town and village in the New York City metro area to increase its housing stock to meet a uniform, state-imposed target and rezone for high-density housing — apartment buildings — within a half-mile of every Metropolitan Transportation Authority train stopI
If a town fails to meet state targets, the compact will allow developers to build big in defiance of local zoning boards in almost all cases.
Hochul is seeking legislative approval for her plan by April. Suburban homeowners are battling a powerful alliance of real-estate developers in it for the money and social-justice warriors determined to end single-family zoning.
Local control will be obliterated. Albany will call the shots on what your town looks like, how much traffic there is and ultimately what your home is worth.
Slate’s Henry Graber bashed Hochul’s critics as “a band of recalcitrant, remorseless ne’er-do-wells.” He’s wrong. Their concerns are legitimate. For most people, their home is their biggest asset.
Opponents of single-family zoning are also playing the race card. ERASE Racism President Laura Harding says she’s fighting for a Long Island “free of structural racism and de facto segregation.” The same phony pretext is being trotted out everywhere.
Racial discrimination is abhorrent and should be prosecuted. But as a Brookings analysis of the 2020 census shows, race isn’t a barrier to suburban living: Blacks are moving to the suburbs at a faster pace than whites. Anybody can be suburban. It just takes money.
Especially in Connecticut. In 2022, developer Arnold Karp purchased a colonial house on tree-lined Weed Street in small, ultra-wealthy New Canaan. There are no commercial or multi-family buildings on the street. He wants to build a five-story, 102-unit apartment complex with 30% set aside for affordable housing.
Weed Street is only a 10-minute drive or 17 minutes on the local train to Stamford, a midsize city where the quantity of affordable housing (nearly 16%) exceeds state guidelines.
Ensuring a supply of affordable housing within a region is more reasonable than demanding every town alter its character.
Local officials explain that New Canaan’s six-person fire department doesn’t even have hoses or trucks to fight a fire in a building as big as Karp’s design.
Weed Street neighbor Chris DeMuth Jr. warns Karp’s “plan is to cram over 300 people into a lot currently occupied by a single family home.” He adds, “If they destroy Weed Street, they could come for your neighborhood next.”
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20 Comments
1 year ago
It’s “obama” sh*thole.
We’re just living in it.
1 year ago
Florida will not like this at at all, the cost of living there has sky rocketted in just 2 years
1 year ago
Because we lumped up the poor in large cities.We gave them too much power thru numbers, and the unscrupulous took advantage.Spreading them out reduces their power and gives them a chance to better their lives.I’ll bet the Mink coat ,Escalade crowd never lets it happen ?
D
1 year ago
Not running, not hiding. Bring it.
D
1 year ago
No problem. Just create and move your city into a “trust” and dissolve the corporation. Rename taxes as “trust maintenance fees” and no longer send any money to the Federal government, or even the State for that matter. Of course county taxes will still apply; but the city will have double the money to use on themselves; instead of losing all that to State and Federal taxation; or could even reduce the “fees” by 50% at that point.
1 year ago
That is the reason for living in the rural area. Where is the water going to come from? They keep crying about a water shortage.
1 year ago
Nothing new. HUD/FHA has been doing this for decades.
1 year ago
It is past time to put Dems int the crosshairs, and NOT fo practice.
D
1 year ago
The BiDUMB administration can move THOUSANDS of ILLEGALS to the safe-air and safe-water haven of East Palestine, Ohio….
1 year ago
” First we have to clean up the neighborhood ”… Malcolm X… and look what ”they” did to him…
Negroes in America need to learn that success is the best revenge, just as the Jews and Irish did way back when they were treated like shit.
1 year ago
The inevitable results of voting dimmercrap.
D
1 year ago
AFFH— Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing is the Democrat Communist plan to destroy the American Dream.
1 year ago
Blue states will comply to Biden’s equity plans , Red states will take Biden to court. Biden will be out of office and equity will be gone.
1 year ago
“Equity” violates the “Equality” clause.
1 year ago
Biden CANNOT make Law
The Court CANNOT make Law
An “alphabet agency” CANNOT make Law
Only Congress may make Law
1 year ago
They want to turn this country into a 3rd world sh..hole just like Venezuela ..
1 year ago
Reply to
Sly
It is like Venezuela!!
And racism, white hate and the maladministration of Dementia Joe Bidiot and Demonrats have made America a pariah and the laughing stock of the planet!!!
What a complete joke of woke going broke!
KARMA HAS HIT BACK FINALLY ON YOUR ARROGANCE and PROFLIGACY!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
1 year ago
Something similar already passed in Massachusetts!
