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AT Least A Quarter Of Every Tax Dollar For HUD Grants Wasted

government waste, dollars as toilet paper2

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

Smith Young September 1, 2017 Just News cdbg, Inspectors General, Investigative Group 631 Comments

Typical HUD Grantee, No Concern or Idea of AFFH; Just Give Us the Money

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

Smith Young August 6, 2017 Just News cdbg, HOME 350 Comments

Letter from Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Paul Gosar to Ben Carson – Recind AFFH rule

Great letter sent to Secretary Ben Carson: http://affh.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/353797381-Sen-Lee-Rep-Gosar-and-Colleagues-Send-Letter-Asking-Sec-Carson-to-Rescind-Zoning-Rule.pdf

Smith Young July 26, 2017 AFFH with Strings Attached cdbg, Fair Housing Act, recind 899 Comments

HUD Comment Letter on Reducing the AFFH Regulatory Burden

Ariel Pereira Associate General Counsel for Legislation and Regulations Regulations Division Office of General Counsel Department of Housing and Urban Development 451 7th Street SW., Room 10276 Washington, DC 20410-0001 RE: Docket No. FR-6030-N-01 Reducing Regulatory Burden: Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda Under Executive Order 13777 Dear Ms. Pereira: Douglas County, Colorado has the following Continue Reading

Smith Young June 14, 2017 AFFH with Strings Attached AFH Tool, Assessment of Fair Housing, cdbg, douglas county, overreach 538 Comments

Courage to Say “No!”

Introduction by Evelyn Zur: Kim Monson is a successful business woman, former Lone Tree Council Woman, Leadership of the Rockies Graduate, and Co-Host to the popular Heart of the Matter talk show by The Americhicks on KLZ 560. Kim testified along with Smith Young, Lily Tang Williams, and Evelyn Zur why the New Rules of Aggression Continue Reading

Smith Young July 15, 2016 Douglas County, CO affh, cdbg, douglas county, Kim Monson 894 Comments

Lake County Board to approve CDBG grant compliant with HUD AFFH program

FiscalRangers By Vance Jochim, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 – Tavares, FL (Lake County) The Lake County Board’s agenda for today’s Tuesday, August 4th 9am meeting includes a “consent” agenda (meaning it will not be discussed in the meeting and is approved automatically) item Tab 3 for the annual plan for CDBG Federal grants received by the Continue Reading

Administrator August 22, 2015 Lake County, FL cdbg, grant 542 Comments

Controversial Low Income Impediments Accepted by the County, DougCo

The 4 year old document below, “2011 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice” was found on the Douglas County, CO, website, contracted to analyze impediments to fair housing in Douglas County. The seed for the new HUD AFFH rule as it effects Douglas County can be traced back to this initial research supporting the Continue Reading

Rita Young August 5, 2015 Douglas County, CO cdbg, douglas county 530 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"