War on single-family
homes, by Tom DeWeese, 2/20/19.
The drive for so-called
Smart Growth programs is catching on in nearly every city in the country. It’s
all attached to enforcing Agenda 21 in the name of sustainable development. And it’s a direct threat to your private
property!
You might know Smart
Growth by another name – “Stack and Pack” high-rise apartments and condos. Look
around – they are everywhere.
But did you know that
the main targets for elimination in the drive for Smart Growth programs are
single-family homes – probably YOUR home?
And believe it or not,
the excuse for blocking the building of single-family homes is RACISIM!
Across the nation, city
councils and state legislatures are beginning to remove zoning protections for
single-family neighborhoods, claiming they are racist discrimination designed
to keep certain minorities out of such neighborhoods. In response to these
charges some government officials are calling for the end of single-family homes
in favor of multiple family apartments.
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
the city council is moving to remove zoning that protects single-family
neighborhoods, instead planning to add apartment buildings in the mix. The
mayor actually said such zoning was “devised as a legal way to keep black
Americans and other minorities from moving into certain neighborhoods”. Racist,
social injustice are the charges
Chicago, Illinois:
So-called “affordable housing” advocates have filed a federal complaint against
the longtime tradition of allowing City Aldermen veto power over most
development proposals in their wards, charging that it promotes discrimination
by keeping low-income minorities from moving into affluent white neighborhoods.
Essentially the complaint seeks to remove the Aldermen’s ability to represent
their own constituents.
Baltimore, Maryland: The
NAACP filed a suit against the city charging that Section 8 public housing
causes ghettos because they are all put into the same areas of town. They won
the suit and now the city must spend millions of dollars to move such housing
into more affluent neighborhoods. In addition, landlords are no longer
permitted to ask potential tenants if they can afford the rent on their
properties.
Oregon: Speaker of the
Oregon House of Representatives Tina Kotek (D-Portland) is drafting legislation
that would end single-family zoning in cities of 10,000 or more. She claims
there is a housing shortage crisis and that economic and racial segregation are
caused by zoning restrictions.
Such policy is racing
across the nation, fueled by grants from the Housing and Urban Development
agency (HUD) and pushed by private non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like
the American Planning Association, the Sierra Club, and many more.
This is the destruction
of the American Dream of home ownership. It is the end of the ability of
average Americans to build private wealth through home ownership -- the very
reason why America grew into such a wealthy, free nation. That dream is now
disappearing under the bulldozers of Smart Growth.
As you know, my American
Policy Center (APC) is the leader in this nation teaching local citizens how to
fight these policies. APC has had some incredible success across the country,
proving time and again that these disastrous policies can be stopped -- IF we
can bring enough force from local residents.
But we are fighting
against a massive, powerful, well-funded force. That’s why I’m asking you to
stand with me and the American Policy Center’s efforts to stop these Agenda
21/Sustainable Development policies.
If you and I don’t stand
up to these Smart Growth programs and save the family home, your city will be
transformed into canyons of massive high rise apartments. Your kids will never
know what its like to play in their own yard. And the entire concept of private
property will be destroyed. That will make the end of American freedom!
Yours in Liberty, Tom
DeWeese, President American Policy Center
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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