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Douglas County Commissioners Letter to Trumps Transition Team for Repeal of AFFH

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The following letter and white paper was submitted to Trump’s transition team by Douglas County, Colorado Government and is exemplary of a local government taking control.  In 2016 Douglas County voted to decline receiving HUD CDBG grants.   Following is a letter from Douglas County Commissioners requesting the repeal of AFFH, sent to John Bravocos Continue Reading

The 2017 U.S. House & Senate Bills to Nullify AFFH

Stomp Out AFFH and Nullify

Wondering how Congress can eliminate the AFFH rule?  This is how it’s done.  “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017” To nullify certain regulations and notices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes. Senate Bill, S.103 Sponsor: Senator Mike Lee (Introduced 01/11/2017) Cosponsor: Senator Marco Rubio House of Representatives Bill, Continue Reading

Obama’s final regulatory binge

Obamas regulatory binge

HUD’s AFFH rule should be at the top of the hit list for Congress to reclaim powers, providing more supervision over lawless presidential rule-making. WSJ Opinion – Midnight Rules Need Morning Repeal Obama’s final regulatory binge deserves a rapid Congressional response. Jan. 4, 2017 7:01 p.m. ET The Obama Administration’s midnight regulation bender has been Continue Reading

What Ben Carson at HUD could mean for Houston

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Houston Chronicle – What Ben Carson at HUD could mean for Houston He’s opposed ‘government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality’ By Leah Binkovitz, Kinder Institute for Urban Research December 8, 2016 Ben Carson, recently named secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “These government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality create consequences that often make matters worse,” Continue Reading

Dr. Ben Carson and Unraveling HUD’s Socialist AFFH Web

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Dr. Ben Carson, HUD Secretary To-Be, has a clear and unbiased view of HUD’s AFFH programs as social engineering. HUD and AFFH under Obama have become a proxy for opportunity under the government’s umbrella, i.e., HUD as the “opportunity agency” now exists with an unjustified mission to collaborate with EPA, DOT, as well as offering Continue Reading

HUD’s Influence Under Obama on Lagging Home Construction

HUD Influence

Introduction by Smith Young “:)”  The article below doesn’t mention HUD’s role in helping create the housing shortage, but it does identify: Local building restrictions, meanwhile, have added thousands of dollars to the cost of building so-called starter homes in recent years, builders said. An example of HUD’s manipulation is the HUD questionnaire “America’s Affordable Continue Reading

Cities, Towns, and Counties Implicitly Issue AFFH Court Orders – What!

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By Smith Young Like school busing, AFFH becomes a court order when local governments accept grants and sign that they will Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH).  It’s effectively a court order backed up by the False Claims Act such that local governments make the community liable and can find themselves in expensive lawsuits if they Continue Reading