The Seattle Times print edition had a headline which has sparked uncounted internet meme’s, though the article title, when I found it online, was different; it had been updated six days later:

New maps of King County, Seattle show how some communities are harder hit by heat waves

By Evan Bush | June 23, 2021 at 6:30 PM PDT | Updated: June 29, 2021 at 8:30 AM PDT

If this weekend’s heat wave sends temperatures soaring well above 90 degrees in King County as meteorologists expect, some communities are likely to suffer much worse than neighbors mere miles away.

That take-away comes from a new map of temperature data throughout King County collected during a scorching day last July. The map, which was publicized by the county Wednesday, shows how the impacts of heat waves and the effects of climate change depend — even at a small scale — on where you live.

And some areas — particularly those with fewer trees and more pavement — boil hotter during heat waves like the one forecast for this weekend.

The difference can be enormous. Temperatures recorded at the warmest and coolest comparable locations last July differed by more than 23 degrees, according to the data.

The heat island effect is well known:

When dark colored surfaces like roads and rooftops absorb and hold heat from the sun, they trap and slowly release heat back into the air, increasing temperatures in the surrounding environment and creating little islands of heat. Heat islands often get hotter throughout the day, becoming more pronounced after sunset because the heat that was stored is slowly released at night. Urban areas tend to have more roads and rooftops, so they experience warmer temperatures than nearby rural areas. Within cities, neighborhoods with fewer trees and plants and more buildings and roads feel hotter than others with more greenspace and vegetation.

Thing is, President Biden wants to force more people into those heat islands!

Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for cities to limit single-family zoning and instead build affordable housing

Biden’s infrastructure bill aims to curb exclusionary zoning, which has led to racial segregation and climate vulnerability for low-income Americans.

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA TODAY | Published: 6:36 AM EDT April 14, 2021 | Updated: 5:36 PM EDT April 14, 2021

President Joe Biden wants cities to put more apartment buildings and multifamily units, such as converted garages, in areas traditionally zoned for single-family housing. As part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, cities would allow for smaller lots and for apartment buildings with fewer than six units to be built next to a traditional house.

Current zoning laws that favor single-family homes – known as exclusionary zoning – have disproportionately hurt low-income Americans. Many of them can’t afford to buy a big lot of land, leaving them trapped in crowded neighborhoods earmarked in the past for Black and brown residents, while white families were able to move to single-family areas in the suburbs.

Biden’s proposal would award grants and tax credits to cities that change zoning laws to bolster more equitable access to affordable housing. A house with a white picket fence and a big backyard for a Fourth of July barbecue may be a staple of the American dream, but experts and local politicians say multifamily zoning is key to combating climate change, racial injustice and the nation’s growing affordable housing crisis.

Translation: the Biden Administration wants to make everybody live poorer!

A tale of two subdivisions. When I lived in Delaware, New Castle County had enacted land use ordinances, restricting the number of homes which could be built on a 100-acre lot. This pushed builders into higher end homes on bigger individual lots, and, looking at zillow.com right now, I’m seeing this home, on a ½ acre lot, not far at all from where I lived, with an estimated value of $535,600.

Then there’s this house, on the left, in Lexington, Kentucky. Decent house, reasonably similar to the one in Hockessin, but built on a 0.16 acre lot, which just sold for $245,000. People want land, for their quality of life, but while the smaller lot house is less expensive, the fewer trees, the two-car concrete driveway, are going to combine to increase the urban heat island effect.

Then, replace that with a four or eight unit apartment building, or, in the case of the three story apartment building shown at the right, 24 unit apartment building. A 426 ft² unit in this building is valued at $77,558 right now.^[1]You see the top floor unit on the left hand side? That was Mrs Pico’s and my first apartment together! I guess that’s affordable, but yeah, with only on-street parking, in a University of Kentucky student neighborhood, an urban heat island it is!

Or this place, 815 ft², though it does have off-street parking, for an estimated $221,000, in a building I know has dilapidated plumbing.

This is what Joe Biden wants for you!

For the urban elites who run the Democratic Party, even the suburbs — which sometimes, horrors!, vote Republican — are problematic.