Abolishing the suburbs?

[BmorePat87]

(07-29-2020, 10:14 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Sounds like a good deal to most suburbanites.  

Perhaps if you present the rule in that way rather than acknowledging that the rule actually required localities requesting these block grants to make plans to address segregation, and then you get to the root of what this campaign against the rule is actually about. 

Though, living miles from a town consistently ranked as "the best place to live" that was built with the purpose of having walkable, mixed income neighborhood villages, I don't think more suburbanites are necessarily against the idea of affordable housing.

Quote:Don't mistake the "outrage" in the twitter comments as representative of actual opinion..

It's a bit disingenuous to dismiss the outrage as being confined to twitter comments, but even twitter comments, absent of bots, do represent actual opinions, especially since the president declares policy via twitter. 

This seems to play into the myth of the silent majority. 

Looking at polling data, an independent poll commissioned by Oppurtunity Starts at Home found that 91% of Americans believe that housing affordability is a big issue that Congress and the President should address ( 49% believing it's one of the top issues). That includes a majority of suburbanites. Now, that doesn't specifically address low income housing, but CATO conducted a poll too. They found that  amajority of Americans believe housing affordability is an issue in their community, and a majority (59%) support building more houses, condos, and apartments, including a majority of Republicans and Suburbanites. When the question is posed as "building more... to lower housing costs in your community", the number goes from 59% to 71%.