Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
In addition to waste, there’s no mention of AFFH legal liabilities and HUD’s overreach on local government authority. Recall that insultingly misnamed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, rule has nothing to do with affordable housing! Daily Caller – AT Least A Quarter Of Every Tax Dollar For HUD Grants May Be Wasted Ethan Barton Investigative Continue Reading
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
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
Comments by Smith Young. Yes, and Ben Carson should reinterpret the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule as he said he would do on July 19, 2017 after meeting with a group of Republican members of Congress led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee called on Carson to rescind the rule. After its introduction July 2015 Continue Reading
It’s been a long time coming, but HUD finally folds because they were wrong. WSJ Opinion – Westchester Beats Obama The feds concede that the suburb’s zoning laws aren’t discriminatory. By The WSJ Editorial Board July 23, 2017 Westchester County Chief Executive Rob Astorino spent seven years fighting Obama-era Department of Housing and Urban Development Continue Reading