Actually, this is already on Biden's platform as a national policy

143 Sound Beach Avenue. Threatened 60 units, settled for 34

Reader “My Rant” sends along a link to this article on CT’s proposed law to abolish single-family zoning and force more low-income housing onto towns.

 As our state economy continues to struggle, the latest “fix” coming out of Hartford is state control of local zoning. This is purportedly to address issues of housing affordability and opportunity. Yes, Hartford would be in charge of making decisions on zoning in Norwalk and Darien and every other city in Connecticut, not your locally elected zoning officials.

Highlights of this proposed legislation include:

· Eliminating single-family zoning throughout the state.

Allocating 10% of the land in every town with 5,000 or more residents to multifamily housing and mixed-use properties

· Financially penalizing towns with zoning codes considered segregationist or exclusionary.

Requiring 50% as-of-right multifamily zoning within a half-mile radius of transit stations and a quarter-mile radius of major corridors, downtowns, and other commercial areas.

Obama spent 8 years forcing this sort of plan on Westchester County in preparation for expanding his plan nationwide. Trump stopped it; it’s coming back.

Stae control of local zoning, or national control? It won’t be good either way (I do like the Hartfords’ idea of giving Stamford the right to force low-income housing onto Greenwich — that will be popular everywhere except Greenwich, because everywhere but Greenwich hates Greenwich). There is in fact already a similar law on the books, one that developers have used to blackmail the town: approve our plan, or we’re coming back with a project 50% larger, with more low-income units — but it’s limited; our Hartfords intend to change that.

Next: regionalization of schools, elimination of gifted and talented programs, and more. Equality!