It\u2019s not \u201cBuild Back Better.\u201d\u00a0 What the Biden Administration is doing is Building Back Bad!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how Project 21<\/a><\/strong> Co-Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a><\/strong> branded the White House\u2019s wild spending plans. At a press conference hosted<\/a> by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), he said the \u201cprimary purpose\u201d of the accompanying legislation \u201cis to restore time-tested failures in how government policy works.\u201d<\/p>\n And when the media and the liberal politicians supporting the plan emphasize that the black community needs these trillions of dollars in new welfare spending, it\u2019s \u201cas if that\u2019s the only view and perspective of black America.\u201d<\/p>\n Not true. As Horace explained:<\/p>\n Building Back Bad doesn\u2019t actually help black Americans, doesn\u2019t help the working class, and all it does is repeat the failed programs that haven\u2019t worked, can never work and are done so often in the name of helping blacks and poor people and minorities generally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Speaking specifically about the Biden Administration\u2019s intended changes to housing policy<\/a><\/strong>, Horace said the belittling message from liberals to black Americans seeking to climb the socioeconomic ladder is that \u201cyou\u2019ll never be able to make it\u201d without their help. But the liberals\u2019 answer is not offering much in the way of advancement:<\/p>\n The very poor, government-funded housing projects that many Americans have been fortunate enough to escape? Well, they\u2019re back\u2026 [with] a little improvement.<\/p>\n This time, we plan to place many of those failed housing projects in the communities, where you can see [what] success looks like, how amazing opportunity is, but you\u2019re still trapped in these pitiful, poor, substandard facilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cPresident Biden is demonstrating once again that blacks are supposed to go to the back of the political bus,\u201d Horace remarked. His administration’s \u201cview is their new priorities are going to go first.\u201d<\/p>\n And these new priorities include the policies of environmental special interests, which will make housing problems worse:<\/p>\n [T]he new green agenda is going to dramatically do one of two things: make housing costs unaffordable for black households, or reward the elites in our communities \u2013 wealthy individuals who prefer these kinds of provisions \u2013 with subsidies that all the rest of us have to pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are solutions the black community could use to deal with housing woes. Yet the Biden Administration ignores them:<\/p>\n Now, if this administration was serious, if they were really interested in improving things, one of the first things they would do is waive the racist Davis-Bacon Act<\/a><\/strong> and allow black, white or brown contractors to build what is truly affordable housing. Davis-Bacon functions in a way to make it less likely that black American contractors \u2013 or even efficient, effective but lower-cost providers \u2013 even have a shot at competing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n