Leftist scholar/assistant prof has the new plan: Government needs to ban private home ownership

For years I've been posting articles showing that the Left--Democrats, socialists, "progressives"--is totally determined to get your political rulers to pass laws making American life as we've known it vanish.

Leftists want to force Americans to have the same quality of life as third-world residents, because that way there won't be any detectable difference between the outcomes of free market capitalism and socialism/communism.

Of course they'd never admit that, since that would cause them to lose voter support.  But the true mission sometimes gets leaked, in articles in the oldest left-wing magazine in the country:  The Nation.

Latest example is an article by a woman who's an assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA.  Her website bills her as "an architect and scholar researching the relationships between urban ecological design, spatial politics, and social mobilization in the context of climate change and global urbanization."

So what's her faaaaabulous plan for making life in this country better for everyone?

You probably already guessed:  She wants to ban ownership of single-family homes.  Oh, and all building on privately-owned land.

Wait...if you ban building on privately-owned land, what does that leave for building new homes?

Oh wait...you're not supposed to ask that.  But surely this communist can't seriously believe that the best approach to life is the communist method of huge government-owed apartment buildings, can she?

Again, you weren't supposed to ask that, citizen.

Here's an example of what she recommends, in her own words:

Community land trusts—nonprofit, community-based land ownership [i.e. communism], with housing units that are typically leased in perpetual affordable status—are a promising model. There are now more than 240 community land trusts in the United States, and they are increasingly part of the consideration for those pursuing a more affordable and less market-reliant alternative. (Bernie Sanders, as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, was an early champion of the idea.) The idea of cooperative living—in both financial and social terms—needs room to breathe and grow. 

Ah, she pushes the self-proclaimed socialist Sanders.  Is anyone surprised?

Ya know, I really think we need to listen to this "scholar."  Big cities need to use taxpayer dollars to build more giant public-housing complexes.  Oh wait, those are awful.  But if we don't do that, druggies and the mentally ill will camp on the sidewalks in big cities.

Ah, yes, there's that.  But what's the alternative?

In the Bad Old Days it would be, "Study hard, get a good education and a good job, or start your own small business.  And institutionalize drug addicts and the mentally ill."  But "scholars" like Kian Goh have better ideas:  Let's just ban private home ownership.  Then everyone will be equal.

Wow, that sounds SO familiar.