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Handout to HOA: Alert to Douglas County Residents

The following is intended for use by activists attending HOA meetings. Copy into Word, modify, and print copies for distribution. Alert to Douglas County Residents As concerned citizens, we feel our local officials need to be alerted to a massive Federal takeover of our communities As of July 16, 2015, HUD has a new Continue Reading

Smith Young September 25, 2015 Misc Letters, Handouts, and Tips douglas county, HOA, Stanley Kurtz 769 Comments

HOA Covenants Defenseless Against HUD AFFH

Homeowner Associations need to be notified about the new insultingly misnamed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, rule and HUD’s intent on ignoring local zoning laws, not the least of which are HOA covenants. Neighborhoods with HOA’s are typically in desireable suburb locations where the value of both the homes within the HOA and the surrounding Continue Reading

Administrator August 23, 2015 Misc Letters, Handouts, and Tips HOA 771 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"