Media Bias

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

I’ll ask it another way, does Biden administration support the federal government oversight and influence on state and local municipalities zoning laws?

Yes or no?

But also the gentrification of large liberal cities…seems a lil hypocritical not to speak to it as that has actual evidence of minorities being forced out of communities.

1. Does Biden support feds influencing local zoning laws? I really dont know, ideally the fed would worry about fed stuff and anything not enumerated to the fed is state rights.

it seems any time fed money is going to local municipalities .. feds put in conditions as well as fed law must be followed even if it contradicts state or local law.

Big dumb general analogy might be I donate money but put in there "must only be used for benches in elm park" or something like that. fed money comes with riders.

Thats not a biden or trump or obama or nay president thing.

2. Gentrification of city spaces and displacement of the cities low income families who have been there generationally ... I have read a good bit on this. DC gives a really good local example.

DC Wharf development is a great example. A once crappy area gets bought up a big money developer who wants to build those mega developments with the wegmans and starbucks and restaurants on street level then million dollar condos above.

The low income people get bought out or displaced bc of rising taxes or rent etc.

Problem is there is no affordable housing for them. So they move to PG County which is now called Ward 9.

DC and cities like SF and others offer these big money developers incentives to include low to moderate income. Its not forced on them, its incentives to do so. DC offered the Wharf people a discount on the land sale, taxes etc and now the wharf has a percentage of affordable housing. NOT section 8 or no income people housing but affordable housing.

Cities are trying to retain their generational family connection while also encouraging development and tax revenue expansion.

Cities are in a tight spot. On the one hand, they want places like the Wharf to be developed into friendly, family fun spaces that bring in revenue .. but dont want to see all their low income families be pushed to the streets or burbs.

Drove through baltimore this weekend and my old neighborhood Locust Point has a zillion upscale tall condo buildings put up, I could barely recognize it. But its all concentrated to these small areas ... then we ended up in some non gentrified parts and the roads are shit, dudes with their dicks literally hanging out walking into traffic ...

My "burb" is mixed, have an apartment complex a football throw from my front door and thats where all the fast food trash, broken alcohol bottles etc come from.

I do hope to move into a single family home not around section 8 in the next few years.