July 2015 - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Attention America’s Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed

Stanley Kurt quote: …by obligating all localities receiving HUD funding to compare their demographics to the region as a whole, AFFH effectively nullifies municipal boundaries. Even with no allegation or evidence of intentional discrimination, the mere existence of a demographic imbalance in the region as a whole must be remedied by a given suburb. Suburbs Continue Reading

Smith Young July 20, 2015 AFFH with Strings Attached annex, Stanley Kurtz 1,009 Comments

HUD ANNOUNCES FINAL RULE ON AFFH

HUD’s Final AFFH Rule as published in the Federal Registry July 16, 2015 “:(” Final AFFH Rule HUD No. 15-084 Heather Fluit (202) 708-0685 http://www.hud.gov/news/index.cfm FOR RELEASE Wednesday July 8, 2015 HUD ANNOUNCES FINAL RULE ON AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a final rule Continue Reading

Smith Young July 16, 2015 HUD's Wacko Righteousness 1,222 Comments

Elevator Speech

AFFH gives FREE federal grant money to the suburbs. But what they don't tell you is that by taking the money, you the suburbs will be forced to gentrify your neighborhoods with low-income racially diverse high density housing.

1) HUD is imposing requirements that go far beyond what the 1968 Fair Housing Act demands
2) Moves high density low income (rental) housing to the suburbs
3) The new rule restricts private choice, local government authority, and the evolutionary history of American residential growth patterns
4) Uses subsidies (block grants) as blackmail against 1,194 targeted U.S. localities
5) HUD grantees must consider statistical data such as education and transportation that are only remotely related to housing
6) Communities threatened with huge legal expenses from allegations by HUD and Civil Rights groups
7) HUD requires racial analysis of demographic data that should instead be colorblind (race baiting?)

Editors Note

The AFFH rule does not do anything for or against discrimination, it merely revamps the planning process of localities applying for grant monies, replacing Analysis with Assessment using the new Tool.
The AFFH rule neither replaces nor extends the 1968 Fair Housing Act
1) We are against discrimination and we do support the 1968 Fair Housing Act
2) We oppose the AFFH rule and it's anti-American implementation of the Supreme Courts decision on "disparate Impact"