There goes the neighborhood: Obama’s vision for our cities and towns

Critics deride it as government-backed social engineering, a policy that effectively spells the end of local control over zoning laws. Supporters praise it as a means of racially and economically diversifying America's suburbs and of ensuring, in the words of President Barack Obama, that "a person's ZIP code doesn't decide their destiny."

Critics deride it as government-backed social engineering, a policy that effectively spells the end of local control over zoning laws. Supporters praise it as a means of racially and economically diversifying America's suburbs and of ensuring, in the words of President Barack Obama, that "a person's ZIP code doesn't decide their destiny."…