August 2015 - Page 5 of 5 - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

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Senator Mike Lee Introduces Bill to Stop HUD Zoning Rule

July 30, 2015 WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) released the following statement Thursday after introducing the “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act,” a bill which denies all federal funding for implementing the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Final Rule.” “Every American should be free to choose where to live, Continue Reading

Administrator August 3, 2015 Uncategorized 269 Comments

Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC)

Increasing the size of government with Sustainable Communities On June 16, 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined together to help communities nationwide improve access to affordable housing, increase transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment. Continue Reading

Administrator August 3, 2015 HUD Advocacy 280 Comments

Invasion of the City Dwellers: Coming to Your Neighborhood

Joy Overbeck, townhall.com Jul 29, 2015 If you worked hard to raise your family in a lovely home in a nice, safe, middle-class suburb, don’t get too comfortable in your hammock. Obama’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has plans to “fundamentally transform” your neighborhood by importing low-income city-dwellers into your community using the muscle of Continue Reading

Administrator August 3, 2015 AFFH with Strings Attached,Uncategorized joy overbeck, Stanley Kurtz 710 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"