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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 1,220 Comments

Can the courts stop HUD and the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, Rule?

by Smith Young I started this article as a draft a few weeks ago triggered by reading about the courts role in pushing back on EPA regulations and asking why not push back HUD too. Although the facts associated with HUD and the EPA are totally different, the canonical form of the cases appears to Continue Reading

Smith Young October 27, 2015 Knowledgeable About AFFH disparage impact, Fair Housing Act 1,454 Comments

AFFH: What You Need to Know to Keep Up With the Latest Right-Wing Outrage

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

Smith Young October 4, 2015 HUD's Wacko Righteousness,Uncategorized Fair Housing Act, right wing, Stanley Kurtz 259 Comments

Before AFFH there was the Fair Housing Act

Roger Clegg, President of the Center for Equal Opportunity, wrote “The government should not be requiring, encouraging, or permitting the use of racial and ethnic classifications and race- and ethnicity-based decision making in order to achieve a particular racial and ethnic mix” And we need AFFH because? The federal Fair Housing Act protects seven classes Continue Reading

Administrator August 22, 2015 Knowledgeable About AFFH,Uncategorized Fair Housing Act, protected classes 709 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"