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Obama Administration Deceitfully used 2007 Subdivision HUD Report as Basis for AFFH

This is the original, first of it’s kind, 2007 national report on the cost of zoning regulations as they affect a single family dwelling. Recommendations in this report have since been used by the Obama administration to fraudulently twist and reuse for the development of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, Rule to impose on Continue Reading

Smith Young October 8, 2015 Knowledgeable About AFFH,Uncategorized barriers, NAHB, Obama, subdivision 184 Comments

AFFH: What You Need to Know to Keep Up With the Latest Right-Wing Outrage

Editors note: This is how the other side thinks: Conservatives have a whole laundry list of stuff they’re outraged about: Benghazi, Fast & Furious, Agenda 21, Obamaphones, etc. etc. So what’s the latest from the right wing? Stanley Kurtz tells us: Conservative opinion has been alive with outrage over AFFH for a month now. Huh. Never Continue Reading

Smith Young October 4, 2015 HUD's Wacko Righteousness,Uncategorized Fair Housing Act, right wing, Stanley Kurtz 181 Comments

HUD’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” Rule Is about Social Engineering, Not Desegregation

Competitive Enterprise Institute – HUD’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” Rule Is about Social Engineering, Not Desegregation By Hans Bader, July 20, 2015 Failure to meet a racial quota is not the same thing as segregation. That basic fact has eluded the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which recently adopted a rule called “Affirmatively Furthering Continue Reading

Smith Young October 4, 2015 Knowledgeable About AFFH desegregation, disparate impact, racial imbalance, segregation 193 Comments

An HOA Handout: Analysis of Impediments (AI) Accepted by a Grantee

An HOA Handout Analysis of Impediments (AI) Accepted by Douglas County Does your community have a similar AI? The 4 year old document below, “2011 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice” by BBC RESEARCH & CONSULTING, contracted to analyze impediments to fair housing in Douglas County. The seeds for the new HUD AFFH rule Continue Reading

Smith Young October 4, 2015 Misc Letters, Handouts, and Tips 538 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"