This discussion isn’t even about Trump. I’m not sure why everything becomes a Trump discussion. It’s tiresome.

You are the forum owner.  If you don't want political discussions, ban them.  If you don't enjoy them, don't participate and let those who do enjoy them talk to ourselves.  It's normal for people to focus on politics in an election year, more so with the various levels of government failing on the coronavirus level.  Taking an interest in our country is healthy.  It protects our constitutional rights, our history, the parties and our way of life.  This subject is political in nature as politics control zoning and city growth.   

I’m not sure how it logically follows that every subject is Trump related. It’s not. I haven’t said a word when your AZ discussion turned to Trump since you started it and you can direct it. I noticed only two are even posting in it anymore.  Which is fine, you are free to talk about it.  But I would prefer to keep this one on topic.

Very well stated.  Thank you.

But that's exactly who it is about.  Kurtz [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs/] is just the echo chamber.

President Trump has taken aim at an Obama-era program intended to eliminate racial housing disparities in the suburbs, a move proponents of the policy see as an attempt to shore up his sagging support among white suburban voters by stoking racial division.

In a Twitter post late Tuesday, Mr. Trump announced that he was considering the elimination of a 2015 initiative known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which requires localities to identify and address patterns of racial segregation outlawed under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by creating detailed corrective plans. 

Mr. Trump and his campaign team, already concerned about his weakness in battleground states, have become increasingly alarmed by internal polling showing a softening of support among suburban voters, especially women without college degrees, according to two Republican officials close to the campaign. [bolding mine --MD}
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/trump-obama-housing-discrimination.html

Political discussions generally involve both parties opinions and stands on an issue.  IIRC, you introduced Biden's Housing plans for suburbs.  Biden is running against Trump. QED Talk about one naturally leads to talk about the other.   Now that Iunderstand your goals, I won't change the focus f your threads.  However EVERYONE is welcome to post on threads I have started, change the subject, stay on subject, agree, disagree, share or ignore.
 

You're right only two are posting on the AZ thread which is sad since the majority of the posts are updates on statistics and efforts to stop Covid19.  

Nicely done.

Don't know enough to form a option.
 

I think that many suburbs will naturally change, so government intervention really would just mis-allocate resources. The Covid-19 pandemic has already caused a lot of people to flee densely populated areas. High density housing and housing projects are so 20th century nowadays. It's the kind of disease exchange Petri dish that we really don't need.

However, I could easily see many of these areas, once the demand collapse of over-priced single family houses runs its course, become transformed into things like manufactured housing communities - which still handles a lot of people but maintains some elbow room.

Also in today's new normal, the most important thing will be fast internet build-out away from the city cores. Many people can earn a living from home these days, as the virus lockdowns have underscored, except of course for those grunt jobs that require constant close contact with others, where the pandemic continues to spread.

But my experience with government mandates is they usually assume everything is static, and then turns into an entrenched bureaucracy that mostly is highly inefficient, wastes a lot of resources, and causes people to have to contort their lives in all sorts of weird ways that further waste their own resources just in compliance burdens.

Jeri (azpaints) said:

They were designed to give a small town atmosphere and give home buyers local entertainment and eateries.

and these kind of developments can eliminate a LOT of awful traffic and killer commutes, if jobs are near where people live.