land use regulations Archives - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Will Obama Make Housing Affordable?

Introduction by Smith Young “:)” Randal O’Toole is a Cato Institute Senior Fellow working on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues. Randal differentiates between affordable housing and housing affordability from a free market perspective, yes something Bernie Sanders and the Socialists couldn’t care less about. In the article below, republished from his AntiPlanner website, Continue Reading

Smith Young May 6, 2016 AFFH with Strings Attached American Nightmare, land use regulations, property rights, zoning 701 Comments

Data analysis reveals that US cities are segregating the wealthy

Introduction by Smith Young”:)” Its one thing to conduct a study and make findings, however, suggesting conclusions and making recommendations is quite different. This study and the findings are significant, but who made Lens and Monkkonen king, effectively empowering them to define community planning objectives and decide right from wrong? Their finding suggest, but they Continue Reading

Smith Young January 22, 2016 HUD's Wacko Righteousness exclusionary zoning, income segregation, land use regulations, Mark Hogan, Sean Reardon, WRLURI 713 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"