President Trump
Donald John TrumpDemocrat calls on White House to take back ambassador to Belarus nominated TikTok to collect data from mobile devices to track Android users: Peterson report wins Minnesota House primarily in crucial swing district MORE on Wednesday claimed that his decision to scrap an Obama-era rule aimed at eliminating racial discrimination would win the support of suburban women afraid of living near low-income projects, and he channeled decades of racist attacks on such developments .
Trump claimed in a tweet that the ‘suburban housewife’ would vote for him out of fears that “low-income homes would invade their neighborhood” under Joe Biden
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Trump also attacked Biden’s promise to revive the repealed rule, known as the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, and claimed for no apparent reason that Biden would set Sen. Cory Booker
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“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. Biden would reinstall it, in a larger form, with Corey Booker in the lead! Trump tweeted, also tagging the accounts of the Fox News show “Fox & Friends” and Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo
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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. Biden would reinstall it, in a larger form, with Corey Booker in charge! @foxandriends @MariaBartiromo
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2020
Trump’s tweet is his latest attempt to pull off decades of racist opposition to efforts to desegregate housing and low-income housing projects in support of his bid for re-election.
Trump’s argument is also not in step with the justification of his administration for hiring the AFFH rule in July. That rule, issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2015, required local governments to prove that federal subsidies for housing projects would not go to developments with discriminatory zoning laws or regulations.
HUD replaced the AFFH rule last month with a measure aimed at giving local governments more flexibility and credibility. But while HUD said the decision was intended to protect the autonomy of local governments to crack down on racial discrimination, Trump proposed it as a way to keep low-income Americans out of affluent neighborhoods, where he unequivocally claims they crimes would be committed.
The president has repeatedly stated that Biden’s plans to oppose the AFFH rule and other efforts to strengthen discrimination against housing would haunt crime in wealthy suburbs that have been expelled from the Republican Party since his election. There is no statistical evidence to support Trump’s demand, but opponents of efforts to diversify neighborhoods and expand low-income homes have raised historically unfounded concerns about crime to block such efforts.
Trump also claimed last month that his breach of the AFFH rule would prevent suburban families from being “troubled or financially hurt” by the presence of low-income neighbors. The president also urged “The Suburban Housewives of America” to read an op-ed written in support of the AFFH recording, reiterating that “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American dream.”
Proponents of fair housing and Democratic lawmakers have sharply criticized Trump’s decision to repurchase the AFFH rule and low-income housing to crime, especially since the coronavirus pandemic takes a disproportionate toll on communities of color. Black and Hispanic Americans account for a disproportionate number of coronavirus cases and deaths and are more likely than other demographic groups to work in a field where remote work is impossible.
Black and Hispanic Americans also face higher levels of unemployment and have significantly less wealth than other demographic groups. That wealth gap is due in part to decades of housing discrimination that excluded underage families from government programs that drastically expanded white American home ownership after World War II.
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