residential buildings located in densely populated district Editor’s note: This has been excerpted with permission from the Pacific Research Institute. To read the entire article, click here .
Politicians and activists have long tried to dress old, failed, sometimes contentious and often intrusive ideas in new clothing. Gun control has become “gun safety.” Illegal aliens are “undocumented immigrants.” The politically charged term abortion has been softened for the palate to “women’s reproductive health.” Often labels are changed due to negative connotations that have arisen from the original terminology. Other times the new phrasing is an effort to obscure.
Of the latter, we’re seeing it in California, where Democratic Assemblyman Alex Lee of Milpitas has introduced a bill with the title, “The Social Housing Act.” He wouldn’t dare call it “The Public Housing Act.” Too much baggage associated with that terminology. So the concept was renamed.
Lee’s Social Housing Act, Assembly Bill […]
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