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The American Dream or Government Control?

The American Dream or Government Control?

The American Dream of private home ownership in a safe, clean neighborhood is increasingly under attack in the name of environmentalism and social justice. ...
Tom DeWeese
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

Does your family live in a single-family house located in a neighborhood of your choosing? Is it a place where your kids are safe to play in the yard, where you can enjoy the sun in your lounge chair with the grill ready to be fired up for dinner, and where your neighbors wave hello? Are you counting on the equity value growing with each mortgage payment, preparing for your financial future?

Well, get ready to lose it all, because a growing movement in America believes your happiness and success is divisive and racist, and ignores the plight of others who just don’t have the same opportunities and privileges as you. 

In several states and communities there has been, over the past few years, a drive to eliminate zoning protections for single-family neighborhoods such as yours. Those zoning protections were designed to keep your neighborhood in the same shape as you found it, with homes of similar styles and value, and free of apartment buildings and the excess crowding of neighborhoods designed for lower-income living spaces.      

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