According to the measure, any local government which does not comply with the federal zoning guidelines, meaning “ordinances that ban apartment buildings from certain residential areas or set a minimum lot size for a single family home,” the Department of House and Urban Development (HUD) will cut off funding to that city which the city uses to maintain the its current low-income housing.
More consequences for cities keeping their local zoning laws in place, bucking federal the government’s overreach, would be to punish states by blocking them from “receiving taxpayer funded transportation grants of any kind if they refuse to allow highrise apartments throughout their high density zoning in their suburbs.”
States rely on federal transportation funding to fix local streets and highways.
This is why the constitution restricted the federal government authority. Housing and roads is a State issue.
This is why the federal government should never have been doling out funds to the states. All of the funding and decision-making should have been left with the states. Cut taxes to the bone. The only legitimate function of the federal government is national defense.