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What people are thinking is to do it at the state level (California, Oregon). There are no restrictions on what states can do relative to cities. (In other word
by joshe 8y ago
What people are thinking is to do it at the state level (California, Oregon). There are no restrictions on what states can do relative to cities. (In other words, if a city can do it a state can too, cities are entirely creatures of the state, there is no real 'federalism' below the state level.)
This HUD effort would be more minor, something like removing some zoning restrictions in order to get federal dollars. The existing political entities (probably cities) would then have to pass those rules to get the money.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> There are no restrictions on what states can do relative to cities. Just because the restrictions on this are not in the federal Constitution doesn't mean they don't exist; just as the federal Constitution has rules on State-Federal power balance, State constitutions often have rules on State-local power balance. State Constitutions are usually procedurally easier to amend than the federal one, though, so, the barriers, though real, are smaller.