{"id":252129,"date":"2021-05-18T02:53:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-infrastructure-plan-wages-war-on-the-suburban-dream\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T02:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:53:24","slug":"bidens-infrastructure-plan-wages-war-on-the-suburban-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-infrastructure-plan-wages-war-on-the-suburban-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden\u2019s \u2018infrastructure\u2019 plan wages war on the suburban dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Biden\u2019s \u2018infrastructure\u2019 plan wages war on the suburban dream<\/strong>”
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If you saved your money and bought a house in the suburbs, your investment and lifestyle may soon come under attack. The single biggest item in President Biden\u2019s \u201cinfrastructure\u201d bill, now being negotiated with Congress, is\u00a0$213 billion he claims will be used to increase affordable housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What he really wants is to put the federal government in charge of local zoning\u00a0and to install\u00a0apartment buildings throughout single-family-home neighborhoods. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

That $213 billion is nearly twice the spending on roads and bridges.\u00a0It would change towns everywhere and, for many families, torpedo the American Dream of a house with a patch of lawn.<\/p>\n

The Biden plan\u2019s backers are hypocrites. Biden himself owns a four-acre lakefront home in upscale Greenville, Del., where there is absolutely no public housing, affordable housing or rentals that accept housing vouchers. And don\u2019t expect any to be built next door to the Bidens.<\/p>\n

Biden has always had a passion for stately homes and swanky addresses, even buying a 10,000-square-foot mansion that once belonged to the DuPont family, of 19th<\/sup>-century gunpowder wealth. Not exactly the sort of housing setup you\u2019d associate with \u201cScranton Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, meanwhile, own a $5 million gated home on a street of expensive single-family homes in Brentwood, Calif. That\u2019s privilege. \u00a0<\/p>\n

These politicians love single-family zoning and exclusivity\u00a0for themselves, but not for the rest of us.\u00a0When Biden was vice president, Team Obama launched its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program in 2015 to ensure that\u00a0every neighborhood includes housing for low-income buyers and renters and public transportation. Now, as president, Biden would massively expand such efforts.<\/p>\n

The United States has a housing shortage.\u00a0But the answer isn\u2019t to have Washington, DC, strong-arming local decision-makers. That\u2019s what Biden\u2019s plan does. The bill creates a gigantic pot of taxpayer funds to hand out to towns that surrender self-rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a mistake. Local control is vital. Towns can take into account\u00a0the\u00a0availability of public transportation, school capacity and proximity to employment.\u00a0Uncle Sam has no clue.<\/p>\n

Advocates for federal control argue that if anyone <\/em>can afford a neighborhood, everyone <\/em>should be able to afford it. That means locating apartment clusters even way out on country roads. Bus routes and bus shelters would have to be built. Roads would have to be widened to accommodate traffic, and sewers and water lines would be needed. Say goodbye to country living.<\/p>\n

Advocates for abolishing zoning\u00a0mock suburbanites for worrying about\u00a0home values. But for most people, their home is their biggest investment, and they waited years to afford it.<\/p>\n

Local control allows them to be part of the solution. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is pushing to end single-family zoning, while her opponents warn that increasing\u00a0density would strain schools and transportation and require cutting down the \u201ctree canopy\u201d over the city\u2019s older neighborhoods. Atlantans will decide. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Other communities are building in-town housing for young working people and seniors, while allowing homeowners to build accessory apartments for extended family or renters.\u00a0The point is this: Washington doesn\u2019t need to put its big thumb on the scales. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s proposals to make housing affordable are laughable.\u00a0He calls for \u201cputting union building-trade workers to work\u201d to \u201csave families money.\u201d Right, as if mandating union-only labor has ever been a money saver.<\/p>\n

Biden is also proposing a first-time home buyer\u2019s tax credit of up to $15,000 that buyers can receive when they purchase, rather than when they file taxes.\u00a0Paying people to buy homes will\u00a0push up housing prices, the same way federal college aid and loans have pushed up tuitions. Federal interventions have a way of backfiring.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s plan won\u2019t expand the American Dream \u2014 but kill it.<\/p>\n

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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