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More subsidized housing, in the tragic public-housing tradition, will do little to help minority groups in their quest for upward mobility.
Biden’s Executive Order on Housing: Replacing Old Sins with New Ones Howard Husock © Rick Wilking/Reuters Houses in the Denver, Colo., suburb of Superior in 2006. President Biden’s flurry of executive orders has now extended to housing policy — and to a pledge to reverse the Trump administration’s approach to “fair housing.” Specifically, that would mean reversing the Trump reversal of an Obama-era rule known as “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” — designed to introduce “affordable” (read “subsidized”) housing into higher-income, suburban zip ...
a- The GOP Establishment has been rightly ridiculed for its formulaic scaremongering against “socialism,” most recently in the disastrous Georgia Senate campaigns. Of course this has no resonance with the generation that has grown up after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and thinks “socialism” just means government hand-outs, which they want (and need). It’s not even accurate, because socialism properly defined is government ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, whereas liberal Democrats historically have just wanted to tax, spend and elect. But the Bi...
Date Time Share Memorandum on Redressing Our Nation’s and Federal Government’s History of Discriminatory Housing Practices and Policies The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Background and Policy. Diverse and inclusive communities strengthen our democracy. But our Nation’s history has been one of great struggle toward this ideal. During the 20th century, Federal, State, and local governments systematically implemented racially discriminatory housing pol...
Dan, pfft, what aspect of Ms. Baptista’s straightforward reportage suggests support for racial segregation? Not one iota! Natural communities evolve by and of themselves, here in Oz we have what are colloquially referred to as “Greek” suburbs, “Lebanese” suburbs, “Asian” suburbs, got “Little China”? Got “Little Vietnam”? Etc. etc., for a multitude of ethnicities. No one in Oz has ever suggested that they were manufactured for the purpose of segregation, “birds of a feather,” mmm? The only racially controversial suburb in Oz is a Yiddish Khazar suburb (very wealthy) i...