Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
Introduction by Smith Young”:)” This particular post is for those of you with a long attention span seeking to understand the details of AFFH. This also demonstrates what makes composing an AFFH elevator speech so difficult (and this is only the FAQ’s!) HUD’s recent post is repeated below, following this introduction. Someone (that would be Continue Reading
Introduction by Smith Young”:)” Its one thing to conduct a study and make findings, however, suggesting conclusions and making recommendations is quite different. This study and the findings are significant, but who made Lens and Monkkonen king, effectively empowering them to define community planning objectives and decide right from wrong? Their finding suggest, but they Continue Reading
See new training video and be amazed at the similarity to planning in the early U.S.S.R., click “Encyclopedia Britannica article”, then click “New AFFH Rule Webcast”, (55 min.) video (below) training participants will learn: The legal basis for AFFH Requirements under the recently released rule The following excepts are from the Encyclopedia Britannica: Economic planning, the process by which key economic Continue Reading
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
Just keep in mind who’s promoting Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH; it’s HUD and all the public housing authority type organizations; all of whom are attacking the suburbs with their loser policies. click here for the original Washington Post article published August 27 by Lisa Rein. In a letter this week, the director of the Public Continue Reading
by Smith Young The figure below illustrates the new AFFH Data and Mapping Tool, e.g., including “Demographics and Transit” that will be used to compare a locality with it’s associated region to eliminate “racial imbalances” by Assessment, not by the previous process of Analysis of Impediments (AI) used to identify discrimination. The current process is Continue Reading
Heartlander Magazine, September 13, 2015 By Tony Corvo (click here for article) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has finalized new regulations for local communities receiving federal government funds, requiring communities to identify and eliminate deviations from mandated demographic and socioeconomic ratios and quotas. The new HUD mandate, officially billed as the Continue Reading
This is a one of a kind assessment by the left wing organization Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, clearly using insider information, attempting a fair assessment of the feedback to HUD during the 30-day comment period after the AFFH rule became official when posted on the federal register July 16. Some of us Continue Reading