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Politico – AFFH Doesn’t Work. And to Say So Isn’t Racist.

Introduction by Smith Young “:)”  If we can learn from the past “school busing” failure, here’s predictive information for HUD’s 2015  Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.  The full text of the article follows this introduction. Ted Van Dyk say’s “Following passage of the Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, and attendant Great Society legislation aimed Continue Reading

Done – It’s Ben Carson as Housing Secretary

Ben Carson Nominated

Dr. Ben Carson doesn’t need an introduction, but you may want to read the Washington Times article he published July 23, 2015 immediately after HUD published the the AFFH rule in the Federal Register.  Read Ben’s Washington Times article about AFFH, click Experimenting with Failed Socialism Again Dr. Carson served as director of pediatric neurosurgery Continue Reading

New Affordable-Housing Rules Will Stifle Construction in Los Angeles

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“They took that problem and made it worse” said Shawn Evenhaim, chief executive of Los Angeles developer California Home Builders, said he stopped purchasing land months ago that would fall under the new requirements, anticipating the initiative would pass. He has enough land to get him through the next two to three years, but after Continue Reading

Trump and Reversing Rule by Regulation

tied down, eg, regulation

Introduction by Smith Young “:)” HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, rule falls within the most difficult category of regulations to peel back.  Here’s a quick read ahead of what’s in the following WSJ article specifically: New Regulations. The third leg of this regulatory reversal is the most difficult: Repealing Obama regulations that went through Continue Reading

Probe into Rockland County, NY Community Development Program

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Introduction by Smith Young, “:)” Why does Rockland County, NY require a Commission on Human Rights?  This sounds very much like a type of European Union (EU) governmental entity set up to mitigate problems due to the Syrian immigration.  Just saying, from a Colorado perspective we have to wonder what kind of diverse cesspool is Continue Reading

Growth of Land Use Regulations Slowing Economic Mobility

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Introduction by Smith Young “:)”  HUD would like to have it both ways; impose regulations on local governments while increasing affordable housing at the same time.  Although not directly related to the AFFH rule, this article demonstrates the trend in which the wealth gap between the poorest and the wealthiest states was steadily closing has Continue Reading