Biden administration squeezing suburbs out of existence with zoning laws
Critics claim the federal government's plan would change the landscape of towns and cities across the country and torpedo the American dream.
"The Biden plan’s backers are hypocrites," former New York Lt. Gov.
Betsy McCaughey said. "Biden himself owns a four-acre lakefront home in upscale Greenville, Delaware, where there is absolutely no public housing, affordable housing, or rentals that accept housing vouchers. And don’t expect any to be built next door to the Bidens."
She added that 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-century gunpowder wealth. Not exactly the sort of housing setup you’d associate with 'Scranton Joe.'"
Regulating land use and zoning has largely been a function of local government. Critics claim that the Biden administration is now dangling millions of dollars in front of cash-strapped local governments in order to pressure them to change.
"I live in Irving, Texas, or as the leftists in Biden's administration would call it, sprawl," Rep. Beth Van Duyne, a Texas Republican, said. "If you live in a home that dares to have a yard, trees, space between you and a neighbor, and you work hard to pay a mortgage, you are likely a target."
Van Duyne, who was the mayor of Irvine from 2011 to 2017, added that exclusionary zoning is "nothing more than a smokescreen to eliminate single-family zoning and break the burbs."