Beware of Smart Growth Utopias
To be a smart voter, you need to become conversant in the fuzzy newspeak of your elected officials. This article is a must read.
The same federal agency that brought us monumental failures like public housing wants to play a bigger role in fostering so-called regional “smart growth.” HUD secretary Shaun Donovan recently traveled to Portland, Oregon to announce the Obama administration’s new Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities. This new bureaucracy will distribute $140 million in grants for regional “smart growth” planning… (more at the link above)
Never forget that if it has to be subsidized, it isn’t really sustainable. This naked vote-buying attempt is counting on us not being wise enough to figure out that we are actually taking on long term obligations to counter-productive development for years to come; kinda like that zero-down mortgage so many Americans bought into.