Anonymous
Post 03/27/2024 08:03     Subject: Re:Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
This is the inevitable consequence of Democratic, and some Republican, policies over the last few decades. What did you think would happen when you add 100 million people to a country? Where did you think they were going to go? Upzoning closer in suburban neighborhoods is one of the least-bad places to make room for them.

Also keep in mind, if the country keeps growing, that those future new people will also need somewhere to live. You're worried about today's densification, but you might just be able to stop tomorrow's.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2024 07:55     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m legitimately thinking about switching my vote over this.



Good thing zoning is a local and not federal issue, then.


They are going to try to force it on local communities by tying federal funding to zoning reforms.


Maybe, but not if the funding was already allocated without those strings attached.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2024 06:20     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:Who in suburbs is even aware of this? Except maybe in Nassau County which was the test run for AFFH under Obama. Trump warned about it, but no one cared.


People are becoming aware as more and more Democratic led communities embrace these ideas. Yes, there will be a suburban backlash in November.

But the republicans need to make this a part of their campaign strategy.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 23:05     Subject: Re:Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters

Marilyn Lands just unseated an R in the Alabama state legislature today. She was running on the IVF/abortion issue. She is a sign of what is to come in suburban voting America. This thread is a side issue compared to abortion rights.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 23:01     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trump and current GOP are so bad I disagree with most of what Biden is doing and yet I have no choice but to vote for him. I'm a pretty typical burb voter, and an independent.


+1

We have no choice in this election and I pray for a gigantic wave so we can get back to worrying about the small issues instead of democracy itself.


Kennedy-Shanahan


Hahahahaha

A roided up buffoon and the billionaire's wife, lol. He has no chance of winning the electoral college and thus becomes a vote for Trump. The margins are too slim in the swing states and America is at stake. I've only voted for a major party candidate once - in 2016 - and I'll be damn proud to vote for Biden again. I'll rethink the Republicans again in '26, depending on how this election shakes out, but in 2024 it's Biden all the way.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 22:59     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m legitimately thinking about switching my vote over this.


Then you are an idiot

One man is busy fixing a bridge, while the other guy is selling a self-branded Bible today.

So please by all means vote for the dumbass.

Trump has never done one thing to benefit anyone else ever. He did nothing in office the first time.

It is BS to even suggest he would be better than Biden. Biden may have his faults like by keeping Wray and Garland but there is no reality were the US would be better off with another Trump presidency.

We live in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA not Magadonia!

What the hell do you think a dictator will do?


Magadonia! I love it. I want maps made of it. Put it on t-shirts and sell with Ultra Maga merchandise.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 22:54     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:Y’all complain about the homeless crisis.
Y’all complain about a housing shortage.
Y’all complain about proposed solutions.
Rinse and repeat.



This is actually more horrific than the problem, though. Right now, I walk past the homeless on my way to my office in the urban core of a city. You're suggesting that we should ship them off to neighborhoods. No. People aren't homeless due to housing shortage. They are homeless due to substance abuse and mental illness. This isn't a solution for that problem. It makes the problem more potent.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 22:51     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why this is a bad thing. We have a limited amount of land, so we should be increasing density where this is infrastructure, rather than eating up our arable land for single family home on acre plots an hour outside our cities. It is crazy and unprecendented in human terms to be so wasteful.


I am voting for Biden no matter what, but there is a lot of space in this country.

Move away from DC and there's a whole world of lower cost housing.


+1
And there is tons of arable land here. So much that we export massive amounts of the crops we grow. We are at no risk of using up all our arable land for houses.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 22:40     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:Trump is hocking Bibles.

He compared himself to Jesus

He wants to be King.

And the cult of bible thumpers thinks electing him will make their lives better, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

They can not even articulate what he did right the last time he was in office.





Yes, they can. Repeat after me: Supreme Court.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 22:20     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trump and current GOP are so bad I disagree with most of what Biden is doing and yet I have no choice but to vote for him. I'm a pretty typical burb voter, and an independent.


+1

We have no choice in this election and I pray for a gigantic wave so we can get back to worrying about the small issues instead of democracy itself.


Kennedy-Shanahan
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 21:29     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Trump is hocking Bibles.

He compared himself to Jesus

He wants to be King.

And the cult of bible thumpers thinks electing him will make their lives better, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

They can not even articulate what he did right the last time he was in office.



Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 21:22     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
The Feds can encourage this, but ultimately isn't it still your local reps. that control your zoning? And, we know that housing is unaffordable for our children's generation. We have to do something. What is the answer, more urban sprawl? There has to be a balance.

I don't think Biden is going to bulldoze my neighborhood of 1950s sh*t shacks to put in condos, so no not worried.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 21:18     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Still not voting for the sexual assaulter who is now selling $59.99 Bibles.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 21:13     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:Trump and current GOP are so bad I disagree with most of what Biden is doing and yet I have no choice but to vote for him. I'm a pretty typical burb voter, and an independent.


+1

We have no choice in this election and I pray for a gigantic wave so we can get back to worrying about the small issues instead of democracy itself.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2024 21:09     Subject: Biden Has Fully Embraced YIMBYs and Will Lose Suburban Voters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trump and current GOP are so bad I disagree with most of what Biden is doing and yet I have no choice but to vote for him. I'm a pretty typical burb voter, and an independent.


I feel like a hostage of the Democratic party
.I'm just going to write in Nikki Haley/mitt Romney and hope for the best


So you voted for Nadar?