Manhattan Institute Archives - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Why HUD’s Deep State AFFH Rule is so unAmerican

HUD’s AFFH rule, an Obama pride and joy, is the epitome of administrative tyranny. Even the insultingly misnamed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing is a misrepresentation used to conceal the means to an end. A “way of restraining agencies—one President Trump could adopt on his own—would be to require them to submit new rules to Congress Continue Reading

Smith Young June 10, 2017 Knowledgeable About AFFH Administrative state, Chevron deference, deep state, executive powers, Manhattan Institute, Philip Hamburger, regulatory state, Tierney 706 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"