Posted on 08/08/2020 12:37:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Robert Reich, who worked as former President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor, is making an effort to block the imposition of Democrat-style diversity on his upscale suburb.
Reich’s hidden identity as a “NIMBY” — Not In My Back Yard — was revealed when emails surfaced to the Landmark Preservation Commission regarding the fate of the Payson House in Berkeley, California.
The email also came to light as the Trump administration repealed a regulation put in place by former President Barack Obama to diversify neighborhoods — mainly more affluent suburbs with single-family homes — by incorporating low-income housing.
As Breitbart News reported, a recent poll shows that 83 percent of American voters oppose the government telling people where to live. The same Rasmussen poll showed that the split by party in opposing government’s enforced diversity is not so disparate — 39 percent of Republicans oppose it, while 32 percent of Democrats are against it.
And Reich, apparently, is among those Democrats, according to his letter to the commission, which said in part:
My wife and I moved into our house at 1230 Bonita Avenue, two doors down from the Payson House, fourteen years ago. One reason we moved into the area was the abundance of older homes dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, offering the charm of an older era of Berkeley, along with the lovely Codornices Creek that runs through the neighborhood.
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I would rather they give him the option of having a windmill built next to his house. A bit noisy and annoying but at least no one will be climbing through his window at night and steal his midget furniture
Robert C. “Third” Reich...the Economy Midget.
Reich should build a community where short people live for free, he could call it, Stay Free Mini Pads
Sorry Shorty, you voted for this.
Oh, the ol' "charming past of the late 19th/early 20th century" dodge for keepin' the "uppity" out, eh? The They-weren't-here-then-so-they-shouldn't-be-here-now angle. Is that it, Mr. Reich?
Dwarfs only!
Marxist Clinton slug, the kind that thinks the all-powerful global NWO state owns your children,
Bkmk
From my point of view watching the activities of “Historic Preservation” committees in NY/NJ for decades, it is nearly always an elitist endeavor, always hinders honest economic land-use development, acts as a “taking” of property without compensation, and the choices are preferences of elites that the common person has little care about.
“Historic Preservation” if those who actively support it all the time, if it had the maximum intended affect, would always creating islands of dying development as capital moved on to where “Historic Preservation” was not a factor.
On the other hand, there are two shows on the HGTV channel where folks are doing “historic preservation” in housing, by buying the older run down homes no one else wants, and renovating them into modern homes that can sell. THAT is “historic preservation” done right.
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