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Re:A proposal to roll back exclusionary zoning would make ho... by briffle on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:52PM (#17971223)
The threat to take away federal funding for places that don’t accept housing growth may be more effective than a brute force approach in the end, who knows.

I believe this is similar to the approach the feds used to move the drinking age to 21 [1], and the old nationwide 55 mph speed limit [2]. They didn't force states to create laws, just said "Federal highway funding will be drastically reduced to states that do not meet X" and magically, this was done.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...

2. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/four-ti...

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Re:A proposal to roll back exclusionary zoning would make ho... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:32PM (#17972986)
Both of those are regarded as examples of the federal government acting outside its authority by a lot of people.
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