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Dubuque Paper Slams HUD, Says NR Is Right

National Review Dubuque Paper Slams HUD, Says NR Is Right by STANLEY KURTZ January 18, 2016 Last week, when I published a sharp critique of the Obama administration’s outrageous takeover of Dubuque’s housing system, Dubuque city officials and a spokesman for HUD took me severely to task. I am pleased to report today that the Continue Reading

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Dubuque Telegraph Herald: National Review right about HUD

Our opinion: National Review right about HUD where we stand Though Stanley Kurtz’s article has inaccuracies about Dubuque, it’s right about the overreach of HUD. BY THE TH MEDIA EDITORIAL BOARD Sunday February 17, 2016 Stanley Kurtz’s depiction of Dubuque in an article last week in the National Review isn’t flattering. “Dubuque is … a Continue Reading

Smith Young February 3, 2016 Dubuque, IA,Just News,LIHTC & Vouchers Dubuque, Stanley Kurtz, Telegraph Herald 898 Comments

How Obama Stole Dubuque: Local and Federal Officials Respond

NATIONAL REVIEW How Obama Stole Dubuque: Local and Federal Officials Respond by STANLEY KURTZ January 15, 2016 On Wednesday I told the story of Obama’s outrageous takeover of housing policy in Dubuque, the most frightening example yet of how the administration’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule will actually work. Today’s Dubuque Telegraph Herald Continue Reading

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How Obama’s HUD Hustles Dubuque, IA, and other Virgin Communities

What state is Dubuque in? If you answered Chicago, you are correct. Chicago’s no state, you say? Don’t be so 18th century — so “constitutional.” Dubuque is in Chicago, which is now a kind of state. Or to put it differently, the Obama administration is in the process of replacing our entire system of government Continue Reading

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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"