LAURA: The left-wing intelligentsia has railed against the suburbs for decades

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Laura: This is a federal power grab

Fox News host Laura Ingraham shreds President Biden's attack on middle-income workers on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

Fox News host Laura Ingraham dismantles President Biden’s "initiatives to advance housing equity" on "The Ingraham Angle." 

LAURA INGRAHAM: For decades, the left-wing intelligentsia, such as it is, has enjoyed railing against the suburbs, calling them lily-white hotbeds of dysfunction, McMansions managed by Stepford Wives, drivers of climate change — it's endless ridicule and disdain.  

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They've been desperate to change zoning laws in order to force social and demographic change on neighborhoods that the left does not consider diverse enough. The word you hear a lot of now is "equity," and this week, Biden announced initiatives to advance housing equity and promote what he claims to be affordable housing. 

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How will this be done? Through a federal power grab essentially, an aggressive federal intervention in local politics — a plan to pressure cities and other localities to relax zoning restrictions that prevent the construction of, let's say, a tenement in the middle of a single-family home neighborhood. Biden's outgoing HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge has said that we're about a million housing units short in the United States right now.  

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Of course, this is like an arsonist complaining of smoke from a house fire that that arsonist set himself. High interest rates and inflation — both of which Biden's responsible for — are the single biggest drivers of housing costs today. Add to that 10 to 12 million illegal aliens, and you have a true housing deficit on your hands.