Civic education has emerged as a major front in the bitter clash spilling over into many domains between left and right in America. Since the civic-education.
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 opportunities,” the fact sheet claims.
“President Biden is calling on Congress to enact an innovative, new competitive grant program that awards flexible and attractive funding to jurisdictions that take concrete steps to eliminate such needless barriers to producing affordable housing.”