Seeding Burbs With Poor Leaves USS Titanic Adrift?

Rep. Beth Van Duyne recently wrote an op ed on Fox News’ website titled, “Biden’s war on suburbs – here’s how administration hopes to control you, your community.” It’s largely a restatement of President Trump’s earlier criticism of the Obama Era’s push to build low-income housing in suburban areas and Joe Biden’s plan to do so as well by “incentivizing municipalities” via federal funds to ban single-family zoning, thereby forcing the building of more multi-family, ergo, low income housing.

Whatever the pros & cons to this ongoing debate, I’d just remind all of an earlier parallel movement called “busing.” To oversimplify perhaps, busing inner city kids to neighboring communities may have helped a lot of them to finally get them a decent education BUT it left behind a lot more to wallow in the decrepit old public schools. Same goes for the related, well-intentioned use of so-called “alternative” magnet, charter & private schools. Decades later, the inner city public schools still suck.

Fast forward to today. The unarticulated danger in a public policy that essentially punts the best educated, hardest-working, most family-oriented inner city folks to the burbs is that it leaves behind so many less prepared to fend for themselves and in neighborhoods drained of its natural aka human resources. Imagine being a person picked to get in one of the Titanic’s life raft and imagine being one left on board. You get the picture and what it’s like for the decayed inner city to (again) be left adrift.

Davd Soul