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Summarizing Impact of the AFFH Rule, as considered by the Town of Parker

October 11, 2015 Letter Summarizing the Impact of the AFFH Rule As considered by The Town of Parker, CO INTENDED AUDIENCE: Colorado elected officials, policy makers, and support staff PREREQUISITE: A minimal understanding of the new HUD AFFH Rule (suggest www.affh.net/about/ ) RE: / Letter of Understanding sent to Mayor and Town of Parker Council Continue Reading

Smith Young October 18, 2015 Douglas County, CO,Knowledgeable About AFFH castle pines, Castle Rock, lone tree, Parker 345 Comments

Douglas County Board 3-2 Against Land Use Changes

Parker Chronicle article Chris Michlewicz, Aug. 4, 2015 Note that Douglas County is one of over 1,200 localities targeted by HUD’s new AFFH rule. It’s the responsibility of local elected officials to use judgment in making decisions on the use of property based on a process of first determining that permit applications are compliant with the zoning laws, Continue Reading

Administrator August 15, 2015 Douglas County, CO douglas county, Parker, Planning Commission 535 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"