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

HUD Clarifies that the Insultingly Misnamed AFFH is not about “Affordable Housing”

Introduction by Smith Young “):” Below, “program participants”, also referred to by HUD as “entitlement communities” are the towns, cities, and counties that take HUD grants. HUD makes it clear that AFFH is only about low-income racial or ethnic minorities where program participants will need to develop strategies to overcome allowing the concentration of low-income Continue Reading

Smith Young April 7, 2017 Knowledgeable About AFFH Guidebook, program participants, strategies 1,068 Comments

HUD Wants Grantees to Self-Incriminate with their Assessment of Fair Housing, AFH, Submission

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

Smith Young January 24, 2016 HUD's Wacko Righteousness AI, Analysis of Impediments, ConPlan, Consolidated Plan, faq, goals, Guidebook, mutually exclusive 522 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"