printThe hotter the housing market, the higher the homelessness ~ilana
The egalitarians have appropriated the anti-zoning argument. They now malign single-family neighborhoods in favor of promoting density, which is—wouldn’t you know it?—more expensive and thus more lucrative. It also jibes with the progressive climate agenda to corral as many people possible into rent-a-bed, pod-living arrangements. ~ilana
NEW COLUMN is “Conservatives & Liberals Aligned With Greedy Developers & Multinationals Against The Homeless.” It is currently featured on The New American, WND.COM, The UNZ Review, where the column led the page, and Townhall.com.
Now on IlanaMercer.com: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2023/03/conservatives-liberals-aligned-greedy-developers-multinationals-homeless/
Excerpt:
Trust the late, much-missed Anthony Bourdain, the Kerouac of cooking, to blurt out the truth when nobody else would as to the root causes of homelessness. Other than libeling the poor as mental drug addicts, the rest—conservatives and liberals in cahoots—call for denser development (as greedy developers lick their chops), and certainly none of those dreamy picket fences for the poor. …
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It is … more edifying to survey the special interests currently involved in the anti-zoning debate. Tellingly, these are the grubby interests of the developers, the realtors and the municipalities, hunkering after more property taxes. All are, inadvertently, protesting the idea of the “Single-family home that offers people a chance at traditional, white-picket fence home-ownership.”
Development fiends all hunger for the revenues that come from “dense housing,” namely “any housing that’s attached to another unit, often in taller buildings: apartments, condos, town homes, row houses.”
Against this background, it seems clear that the egalitarians have appropriated the anti-zoning argument. They now malign single-family neighborhoods in favor of promoting density, which is—wouldn’t you know it?—more expensive and thus more lucrative. Dense living also jibes with the progressive climate agenda to corral as many people possible into rent-a-bed, pod-living arrangements.
… READ NEW COLUMN here “Conservatives & Liberals Aligned With Greedy Developers & Multinationals Against The Homeless.” It is currently featured on The New American, WND.COM, The UNZ Review and Townhall.com
Now on IlanaMercer.com, where you can also get up to speed by reading Part I: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2023/03/slandering-homeless-mass-immigration-not-mental-disease-addiction/
I was going to quote one paragraph you have in your column because I liked it a lot, Ilana. (I first read it in Townhall.) Then I noticed you have that particular section as part of your heading. I’ll quote it again. Hopefully this is ok. “…the egalitarians have appropriated the anti-zoning argument. They now malign single-family neighborhoods in favor of promoting density, which is—wouldn’t you know it?—more expensive and thus more lucrative. Dense living also jibes with the progressive climate agenda to corral as many people as possible into rent-a-bed, pod-living arrangements.”. It seems this is a bit what’s going on in SE Virginia where I am. I’ve wondered a while now, looking at all these cookie cutter houses and apartments and townhomes, who is going to live in these dwellings? Are there that many coming here? SE Va has always been a draw, but I would think it has been less so; it’s congested and we’re choked with traffic. I can’t forget what I’ve learned in Genesis. Man, with the leading of Cain, rebelled against God, and built cities. “…he builded a city…” (Gen. 4:17). And then Nimrod continued that rebellion in Babel, “…let us build a city…” (11:4). Nearly two years ago at a park near the Chesapeake Bay, I was looking at an instrument put on a lamp post. The monitor asked me if I needed help. I said I was just looking at this thing, wondering. I was told, “…it’s sampling the ozone, if you care.” The person didn’t know me, and it seemed the individual thought I could care less about air quality, etc. Something else. Oh, NASA was doing the testing.