Outrage over Trump’s low-income housing rule is, naturally, fake

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When middle-class white people move into a poor neighborhood, liberals complain about gentrification forcing out lower-income minorities. When middle-class white people leave a neighborhood, liberals complain about “white flight.”

Forgive me, then, for not caring that President Trump just said his administration is eliminating an Obama-era rule that pushed localities to ensure that low-income housing was not just available but also near good schools, low-crime neighborhoods, grocery stores, shopping centers, and other hallmarks of suburbia.

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