Judge Sidney Fitzwater Archives - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Where does Federal Judge Decision Dismissing Discrimination Lawsuit Take Us on AFFH?

The 2008 lawsuit by the Dallas-based Inclusive Communities Project, which alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment started it all and is the root cause of the insultingly misnamed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, click AFFH for Dummies. What does this decision mean, if anything for Continue Reading

Smith Young August 29, 2016 Knowledgeable About AFFH disparate impact, Inclusive Communities Project, Judge Sidney Fitzwater 542 Comments

Federal Judge Dismisses Texas Housing Discrimination Lawsuit After Supreme Court Decision

Happening now, happened today! We will be following what this victory means, specifically for Texas and the broader impact it will have on HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule passed last year and being implemented as a result of this Supreme Court decision. Two important points related to this decision: Proving that Texas is liable for reinforcing Continue Reading

Smith Young August 27, 2016 Knowledgeable About AFFH Inclusive Communities Project, Judge Sidney Fitzwater, supreme court 543 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"