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How HUD Makes Zoning Changes Through the Back Door

Introduction by Smith Young “):” This article is mistaken and malformed throughout, but it’s an excellent piece of literature on how an important topic can be massaged to present a convincingly false narrative. Using evidence associated with this complex topic with many vested interests, the information below demonstrates how staff writers push an agenda, how Continue Reading

Smith Young March 15, 2017 Knowledgeable About AFFH county, impediments, rockford, zoning 700 Comments

Request for an AFFH Legal Defense Fund

The following is a script presented to the Douglas County, CO, Board of Commissioners requesting an AFFH Legal Defense Fund. February 16, 2016 Request an AFFH Legal Defense Fund Douglas County, CO, Board of Commissioners Business Meeting Citizen Comments Smith Young, Presenter Parker, CO Because of HUD’s new AFFH rule Douglas County is now much Continue Reading

Smith Young February 17, 2016 Douglas County, CO commissioners, douglas county, litigation, rockford, Rockford Housing Authority 745 Comments

HUD’s heavy hand behind Rockford, IL, legal battle and Rejections of $28 million in Grants

The collection of articles below document the short history of how HUD has facilitated, rather is the root cause of this current legal battle. The publications below consist of excepts with links provided to the complete stories, but you’ll quickly get the idea. “:)” Rockford Housing Authority buys land off Rockford’s East State Street for Continue Reading

Smith Young February 17, 2016 Just News Gorman, RHA, rockford, Rockford Housing Authority 710 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"