As usual, the federal utopians display their utter disdain for reality. Next up: let’s outlaw gravity. So let it be written, so let it be done.
This quote from the article sums up the mentality perfectly: “This rule is not about forcing anyone to live anywhere they don’t want to,” said Margery Turner, senior vice president at the left-leaning Urban Institute. “It’s really about addressing long-standing practices that prevent people from living where they want to.”
News flash, Margery. Any time you introduce a law that aims to change behavior, you’ll get exactly what you wanted: changed behaviors.
What Margery and her ilk don’t get (correction: refuse to get) is that all affected parties will alter their behaviors, not just the ones you want. Just as investors change their investment strategies to match current tax codes, current residents of targeted neighborhoods will move.
So yes, Margery, you WILL have to force people to live where they don’t want to. For a good tutorial on how this works, read up on communist regimes. Any one will do. They all turned out the same.
Like not wanting to work hard? Nothing is stopping anybody from living in any neighborhood except a lack of money. Or should I be given a voucher to live in Malibu or next door to Obama's Hawaii mansion, just because I "want to" live there and am "prevented" by not having enough money?