President Trump said Wednesday that the ‘suburban housewife’ will vote for him over his presumptive Democratic rival Joe Biden – with instructions from his administration to roll back an Obama-era household arrangement that he says Biden would ‘reinstall’ … in a larger form. ”
“The ‘suburban housewife’ will vote for me. They want security and are happy that I ended the long-running program in which low-income housing would invade their neighborhood, ‘he tweeted.
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“Biden would reinstall it in a larger form with Corey [sic] Booker in leadership, ”he said.
He referred to the Obama-era 2015 Affirmatively Continuing Fair Housing Regulation, which required local jurisdictions to assess and address racial and economic disparities. The Trump administration pushed the rule up and moved it last month to abolish it.
An explorer on the website of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said that the aim of the program is “replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racist and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity,” and compliance with and compliance with civil rights and fair housing law. “
Biden, meanwhile, has stood by the regulations and has promised to abolish zoning regulations that limit the supply of housing and keep house prices up in some areas.
“Exclusion zoning plans have been used strategically for decades to keep people of color and low-income families from certain communities,” Biden said in his plan.
His language in his plan borrows from a bill introduced by Sen. Booker, DN.J., that would remind federal funds for community development and transportation infrastructure of locations that do not reform their zoning regulations to possibly build more homes.
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His plan would also expand the use of Section 8 housing bonds, introduce laws to prohibit landlords from discriminating against those who pay with bonds and institute tax incentives to build affordable housing.
The Biden campaign on Wednesday responded to Trump’s tweet.
“The Donald Trump presidency is melting down after its failed, divisive, unjust leadership has cost more than 160,000 American lives, tens of millions of jobs, and left the United States the hardest hit country in the world by COVID-19,” Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates said.
“While wrestling with vengeful attempts to shake the American people apart and distract the country from its devastating mismanagement with clumsy, bigoted lies, he only further discredits him – and proves that he is dumb behind Joe Biden’s selection of a strong running mate that he himself said two weeks ago would not be a ‘good choice’, ‘he said.
Trump has used the housing debate several times in recent weeks to accuse Biden of destroying communities – rhetoric that his critics have accused of being racist.
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“Your house will fall in value and crime rates will increase rapidly,” Trump said in July. ‘People have worked all their lives to get into a community, and now they’ll see it go to hell. That will not happen, not while I’m here. ”
Paul Best, Brooke Singman and The Associated Press of Fox News contributed to this report.
