Baltimore Archives - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

HUD’s Challenge – Implementing AFFH While Interfering with the Evolution of Free Enterprise

More U.S. Cities, Downtown is a Center of Economic Strength, WSJ

Introduction by Smith Young “:)” See WSJ article below and related WSJ article , click The Carving Out of the Urban Middle Class and use buttons to see demographic changes in median household income for 1970, 1990, and 2014. The changes are amazing showing three examples of U.S. cities where concentrated wealth has risen next to Continue Reading

Smith Young August 6, 2016 Affordable Housing News,Just News Baltimore, Buffalo, chicago, Cincinnati, median income, Millennials, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, St. Louis 535 Comments

Happening Now, Baltimore County Surrenders and HUD Takes Over in Affluent Baltimore Suburbs

Baltimore may have won the War of 1812 against the British but loses in HUD’s war against the suburbs. Edited by Smith Young “:)” Without fighting to win in court Baltimore County has allowed the Department of Housing and Urban Development and its henchman the NAACP to follow through with a punishing indictment on the Continue Reading

Smith Young April 3, 2016 Just News,LIHTC & Vouchers Baltimore, cnsnews.com, income discrimination, NAACP, vouchers 198 Comments

Elevator Speech

AFFH gives FREE federal grant money to the suburbs. But what they don't tell you is that by taking the money, you the suburbs will be forced to gentrify your neighborhoods with low-income racially diverse high density housing.

1) HUD is imposing requirements that go far beyond what the 1968 Fair Housing Act demands
2) Moves high density low income (rental) housing to the suburbs
3) The new rule restricts private choice, local government authority, and the evolutionary history of American residential growth patterns
4) Uses subsidies (block grants) as blackmail against 1,194 targeted U.S. localities
5) HUD grantees must consider statistical data such as education and transportation that are only remotely related to housing
6) Communities threatened with huge legal expenses from allegations by HUD and Civil Rights groups
7) HUD requires racial analysis of demographic data that should instead be colorblind (race baiting?)

Editors Note

The AFFH rule does not do anything for or against discrimination, it merely revamps the planning process of localities applying for grant monies, replacing Analysis with Assessment using the new Tool.
The AFFH rule neither replaces nor extends the 1968 Fair Housing Act
1) We are against discrimination and we do support the 1968 Fair Housing Act
2) We oppose the AFFH rule and it's anti-American implementation of the Supreme Courts decision on "disparate Impact"