Yesterday Obama voided every zoning law in America and put HUD in charge of your town

Your town doesn't have enough black people.

Obama is going to fix that.

And if it means turning your neighborhood into a slum, well that's the price you gotta pay.

Citing "exclusionary zoning" HUD Secretary Julian Castro released Obama's totalitarian regulatory onslaught against suburbia. The goal? Uniformity in racial balance and housing quality for every town, city, hamlet, and village in America.

AFFH is easily one of President Obama's most radical initiatives, on a par with Obamacare in its transformative potential. In effect, AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education. Not only the policy but the political implications are immense — at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.

It doesn't matter what kind of neighborhood you want to live in.

Obama will dictate who moves in next door.

Obama will dictate what kind of house you'll be allowed to build.

Obama will dictate where you live, where you shop, where you work, and how you get around town.

It's the culmination of decades of "equality of outcome" nonsense spewed by the denizens of "fairness." Because it's "unfair" that someone who worked hard all his life has a nicer house than someone who is sliding by on Section 8 vouchers.

So the Section 8 vouchers are coming to you.

They couldn't wave their magic wands and make the inner cites safer and nicer. So they're going to force every town to look more like the inner cities. Only they're called "transit villages" now. High density housing. Designated retail locations. Bus and train depots. And no parking lots.

Sounds wonderful, right?

And if that's what you want, great. Go for it.

But America is not a communist central planner's blank canvas. Our towns and cities each have unique features that make them desirable to different groups of people. Homogenizing our living experiences will not bring us all closer together; it'll bring conflict and foster resentment since we'll lose control over how and where we live.

Or does no one remember what East Germany looked like before the Berlin Wall came down? Because that's Obama's vision for your town. Depressing, unappealing sameness, miles and miles of bleak utilitarian boxes, devoid of color and indistinguishable from any other corner, anywhere.

I don't want to live there.

Posted at 10:30 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
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