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| DATE | 2020-08-22 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Trumps Words - The right to decide for yourself..
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wsj.com
Opinion | We’ll Protect America’s Suburbs
Donald J. Trump and Ben Carson
5-7 minutes
By Donald J. Trump and Ben Carson
Aug. 16, 2020 4:02 pm ET
The crime and chaos in Democrat-run cities have gotten so bad that
liberals are even getting out of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Rather
than rethink their destructive policies, the left wants to make sure
there is no escape. The plan is to remake the suburbs in their image so
they resemble the dysfunctional cities they now govern. As usual, anyone
who dares tell the truth about what the left is doing is smeared as a
racist.
We won’t allow this to happen. That’s why we stopped the last
administration’s radical social-engineering project that would have
transformed the suburbs from the top down. We reversed an Obama-Biden
regulation that would have empowered the Department of Housing and Urban
Development to abolish single-family zoning, compel the construction of
high-density “stack and pack” apartment buildings in residential
neighborhoods, and forcibly transform neighborhoods across America so
they look and feel the way far-left ideologues and technocratic
bureaucrats think they should.
We reject the ultraliberal view that the federal bureaucracy should
dictate where and how people live. We believe the suburbs offer a
wonderful life for Americans of all races and backgrounds when they are
allowed to grow organically, from the bottom up. That’s how America’s
suburbs are today—except those that have already been ruined by poor
planning and policies.
Every American has a stake in thriving suburbs. The shameful days of
redlining are gone, and a majority of the country lives in the suburbs,
including majorities of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans and
Asian-Americans. America’s suburbs are a shining example of the American
Dream, where people can live in their own homes, in safe, pleasant
neighborhoods. The left wants to take that American dream away from you.
In spite of this remarkable success, a once-unthinkable agenda, a
relentless push for more high-density housing in single-family
residential neighborhoods, has become the mainstream goal of the left.
For eight years under Obama-Biden, HUD pressured Westchester County,
N.Y., to change its zoning rules. Although Westchester was never found
to have discriminated against anyone, HUD used the threat of withholding
federal money to pressure it to raise property taxes and build nearly
11,000 low-income, high-density apartments. Other liberal-run cities and
states have also taken up the cause. Minneapolis abolished single-family
zoning this year—a few months before it voted to abolish its police
force. Oregon outlawed single-family zoning last year. For the past
three years, the state senator who represents Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San
Francisco has led a push to abolish single-family zoning in California.
Liberals even believe this unprecedented federal disruption of the
suburbs is required to battle climate change. They say the suburbs are a
problem because of unacceptably high levels of greenhouse gases
generated by a family with its own house, a yard, two cars and a dog.
The Biden-Sanders unity platform calls for reimposing the Obama-Biden
dystopian vision of building low-income housing units next to your
suburban house. Some leading Democrats want to go even further. Sen.
Cory Booker and Rep. James Clyburn have introduced a bill that would
hold hostage more than $12 billion in federal grants to states for safe
roads unless local politicians agree to densify the suburbs. As far as
the White House is concerned, this bill is dead on arrival.
America was founded on liberty and independence, not government
coercion, domination and control. It would be a terrible mistake to put
the federal government in charge of local decisions—from zoning and
planning to schools. Our Founders understood this was the path to tyranny.
Americans of all walks of life have voted with their feet and put down
roots in the suburbs. Across income segments and demographic groups,
households have higher rates of homeownership in the suburbs than in
urban centers. Decades of liberal governance have tragically made many
urban cities unaffordable and others unlivable, unable to provide for
their citizens’ basic needs in housing, public safety and education.
While we fight every day to restore our cities’ greatness with
innovative means like opportunity zones, the left opposes us on
rebuilding the economy, on law and order, and on school choice. We won’t
let them export their failures to America’s suburbs. We will save our
cities, from which these terrible policies have come, and we will save
our suburbs.
Mr. Trump is president of the United States. Mr. Carson is secretary of
housing and urban development.
Wonder Land: After months of the pandemic, protests and failing
progressive leadership, many are going to move out of U.S. centers.
Images: Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
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