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Guess it’s time to revisit the affordable housing movement that has been a cornerstone of the liberal agenda for decades. Unfortunately, lots of moderate suburbanites feel good about supporting it, without understanding the real objectives.

Affordable housing plans seek to fundamentally undermine private property rights - and these are rights that represent the foundation of free enterprise, personal responsibility and our representative democracy. When government interferes with these rights, by dictating where and why and how property can be bought or sold, it is the first step towards state/government control of property.

The Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs is a community organizing entity aimed at changing the whole private property system on the North Shore; if the acronym ACORN resonated in Winnetka, it might be used instead of IHCNS. When Federal government officials help fund organizations like IHCNS, they give legitimacy to the movement along with financial support. Bottom line: suburbanites who have worked to achieve their property values do not need to surrender to the forces of political correctness. People should live where they can afford to live, not where community organizers use government funding to subsidize their homes.