Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
Revealing more about how HUD disregards the interests of taxpayers. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is peeling back layers of HUD’s onion, said through a spokesman that the reverse-mortgage program is seeing losses that require changes be made WSJ – Trump Administration Plans New Restrictions on Reverse Mortgages Mortgages help seniors supplement Continue Reading
Excuse me for being skeptical, but most studies don’t strive to determine the root cause, instead they are based on correlation not causality. Both the FDA and HUD are examples of federal agencies that go too far, albeit in the opposite direction. The FDA uses studies that make it too difficult, expensive, and time consuming Continue Reading
HUD believes that if you don’t own property you are property, HUD’s property that is with cheap rental homes in the suburbs. When it comes to AFFH HUD places no priority on honoring the property rights of homeowners who might object or local government authority for jurisdictions taking HUD grants. WSJ – Builders Pull Back Continue Reading
What do the Swedes and socialist HUD have in common? The comparison between childrearing and Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing may be a stretch until you get to the last paragraph: Although the welfare state is often debated in economic terms, we have yet to put a price on self-determination or freedom of conscience. What I once Continue Reading
Introductory email with letter attached: Donald, you should recognize most of the people on this email as friends and longtime supporters. Each volunteered comments and spoke at the June 27, 2017 BOCC meeting objecting to Jefferson County accepting HUD grants. All have contributed to the content of the attached letter either in writings, discussions, and Continue Reading
Read along using the script below. Maria: Floor video on politics: ‘WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONER’ To get my answer, I am interviewing Smith Young, a retired IBM architect. He became an activist, opposing government corruption, after learning Justice Scalia’s views on the 2015 ruling on ‘disparate impact’, which basically turns a HUD grant Continue Reading
To put the amount in perspective, the state of Colorado paid much more for affordable housing alone than HUD paid Denver, Colorado’s largest recipient of federal HUD grants, consisting of $11,333,541 for 2017 and $11,059,457 in 2016. These are federal grants provided for everything from a bread basket to the kitchen sink. These are HUD Continue Reading
Bismarck Tribute – ‘We have no idea what’s going to happen’: Local leaders fear funding cuts Sam Easter Forum News Service North Dakota, county of Burleigh and city of Bismarck Jul 22, 2017 All around Grand Forks — and the country — nonprofits, local leaders and others are asking the same question they always do: Continue Reading