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That's literally the proposal. Giving money to local governments. There is no incentive to expand otherwise. Unless you believe that towns should continue to engage in exclusionary zoning, which, as I said before, is great for homeowners in said town, but bad for everyone else.
How could a conservative not like this idea? The federal government is giving our tax dollars back to local government. Don't we prefer that, over the converse?
The "conservative" thing to do would be to not send the money to the Federal government and then have to beg for a portion of it to be returned with strings attached on how it must be spent. Mayors and city councils should be in charge of a town, not some bureaucrat in Washington.
Why does everyone act as if the suburbs are special? They’re just another residential community just like anywhere else.
Well DD, in my neighborhood if a storm goes through, drops trees and cuts power we help each other. We cut trees, put tarps over holes in roofs caused by trees fallen ect. In North Minneapolis they loot each other’s homes before the storms sirens stop. True story. Big difference.
Biden wants to end single family home zoning by attaching a requirement when accepting federal money(HUD) that a community must comply/follow a federal policy that seeks to end single family zoning. When building new homes or developing areas they must contain multiple 'affordable' housing units. Brings up population density issues among other things.
Is this the first or another step to eliminate suburban living that includes a single home, some property like a yard, driveway etc.
Solution: Local governments cease expectation of Federal monies
Reality: There is very limited land available for development in most suburban communities that favor single family zoning, unless one counts near vacant strip malls which might be available for rezoning should a developer be interested.
Most urban areas are already a mix of SF and MF housing.
MF housing tends to bring in way more tax revenues than SF which appeals to local governments. These revenues may or may not offset increased costs.
Biden's proposal is to nudge local government (using federal funds as a carrot) into allowing more apartments within single family housing zones. There is no suggestion to end or eliminate SFR zoning completely.
Try re-reading your own post and THINKING about what you just wrote.
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These laws already being made in some cities will not have an effect on the suburbs. In a big city there are plenty of "teardown" homes that can be demolished and a 4-plex built in it's place. We see this all over Seattle now. In a suburban city/town where there are newer developments of 2,00-4,000 sf homes no developer is going to demolish the $1 million+ homes to replace them with apartments. Here, for example, in our city of 65,000 the only available vacant spaces are woods that have to be clearcut for new development, and for whatever reasons they prefer to build tract homes of 4,000 sf on 5,000 SF lots that sell for $1.5 million rather than apartments. I'd guess that there must be more immediate profit per acre. Building apartments means many years colleting rent before it pays back and starts to generate profit, and then you have a pandemic and laws preventing eviction.
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