Reason #5914 That Trump Was Elected

H/T to Wombat-socho's "In The Mailbox: 04.04.18", Political Hat brings us Obama’s Assault on Urban, Suburban, and Rural Communities on It’s Last Breath?

One of the most pernicious designs of the Obama Presidency was the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” machinations. While it did not receive the publicity of so-many other of this efforts, it remains one of t he most fundamentally transformative… until perhaps now.

To wit: The “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” plan was to turn America into a copy of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis“, by eliminating suburbs by effectively nationalizing zoning to fundamentally transform how people are housed in an assault on the individualistic suburbia in order to push every one into a controlled Progressive cage to emulate some “college dorm” via means of declaring racism where there is none, is now defunded by Congress:

“None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to direct a grantee to undertake specific changes to existing zoning laws as part of carrying out the final rule entitled ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing’ … or the notice entitled ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assessment Tool’. . .”

Congress has done it’s part. Now it is up to HUD Secretary Ben Carson of the Trump Administration to deliver the fatal blow:
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Faster Donald Trump, KILL KILL!

For a little more background on the  “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” plan here is the National Review from 2015: Attention America’s Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed

It’s difficult to say what’s more striking about President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation: its breathtaking radicalism, the refusal of the press to cover it, or its potential political ramifications. The danger AFFH poses to Democrats explains why the press barely mentions it. This lack of curiosity, in turn, explains why the revolutionary nature of the rule has not been properly understood. Ultimately, the regulation amounts to back-door annexation, a way of turning America’s suburbs into tributaries of nearby cities.

This has been Obama’s purpose from the start. In Spreading the Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, I explain how a young Barack Obama turned against the suburbs and threw in his lot with a group of Alinsky-style community organizers who blamed suburban tax-flight for urban decay. Their bible was Cities Without Suburbs, by former Albuquerque mayor David Rusk. Rusk, who works closely with Obama’s Alinskyite mentors and now advises the Obama administration, initially called on cities to annex their surrounding suburbs. When it became clear that outright annexation was a political non-starter, Rusk and his followers settled on a series of measures designed to achieve de facto annexation over time.

The plan has three elements: 1) Inhibit suburban growth, and when possible encourage suburban re-migration to cities. This can be achieved, for example, through regional growth boundaries (as in Portland), or by relative neglect of highway-building and repair in favor of public transportation. 2) Force the urban poor into the suburbs through the imposition of low-income housing quotas. 3) Institute “regional tax-base sharing,” where a state forces upper-middle-class suburbs to transfer tax revenue to nearby cities and less-well-off inner-ring suburbs (as in Minneapolis/St. Paul).

If you press suburbanites into cities, transfer urbanites to the suburbs, and redistribute suburban tax money to cities, you have effectively abolished the suburbs. For all practical purposes, the suburbs would then be co-opted into a single metropolitan region. Advocates of these policy prescriptions call themselves “regionalists.”

Democrats hate the suburbs, because they tend not to vote democrat, in contrast to the urban cores. Their solution? Force the suburbs into to the urban areas, and make the people there more dependent on the government and hence, more likely to vote democrat.

As I've stated before, the urban/rural split is the fundamental battle of the American politics, and the suburbs (although they trend slightly Republican) are the no mans land in between.