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Biden exercised presidential authority and $68.7 billion was awarded to HUD for fiscal year 2022; a $9 billion increase above 2021 funding, expected. *Although the month of April is annually observed as Fair Housing Month, the reality for Black America and other people of color is that housing has not significantly changed since the 1968 federal enactment of the Fair Housing Act. Its enactment came seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had strongly advocated fair and open housing. But 53 years after an historic enactment, race and place remain the determining f...

GOP Rep. Norman Says 10th Amendment Bars Biden’s Bid to Federalize Suburban Zoning Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) says the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bars the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from federalizing suburban zoning powers. “Well, a couple of things. No. 1, it’s against the 10th Amendment,” Norman told The Epoch Times during an interview on April 13, as he returned from an inspection tour of the immigration crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico. “The federal government should not be meddling in what counties, municipalities, and states should rule...

Biden Moves to Revive Obama Plan to Federalize Suburban Zoning Regulations Buried in the nearly 18,000-word White House Fact Sheet on President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion “American Jobs Plan” infrastructure bill is one paragraph that could turn the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into a zoning commission for suburban America. “For decades, exclusionary zoning laws—like minimum lot sizes, mandatory parking requirements, and prohibitions on multifamily housing—have inflated housing and construction costs and locked families out of areas with more opportunit...

Biden commences his war on the suburbs Joe Biden’s “infrastructure” bill isn’t about improving America’s roads, bridges, and other elements of our infrastructure. It’s about transforming America as radically as can be done through spending legislation. We shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that the legislation includes an attack on single-family zoning. Stanley Kurtz has the details. He begins by providing the context: With the introduction of his massive, $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” bill, President Biden’s campaign to end suburban single-family zoning has begun. If yo...

Monday, February 15, 2021 Since inauguration, the Biden Administration has used Executive Orders, guidance and regulations, and cabinet nominations to make clear that LGBTQ+ protections are a top policy priority. In the January 26, 2021, press briefing, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice stated that “[e]very agency will place equity at the core of their public engagement, their policy design, and program delivery to ensure that government resources are reaching Americans of color and all marginalized communities — rural, urban, disabled, LGBTQ+, religious minorities, and so man...