segregation Archives - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

The Foolish Wisdom of Cities

by Smith Young, HUD and DPS want it both ways In an attempt to provide affordable low income housing everywhere the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, city policy makers, and even educators, i.e., in Denver Public Schools, DPS, want to force integration by attracting minorities to the suburbs while attracting whites into the Continue Reading

Smith Young November 3, 2015 Knowledgeable About AFFH,Uncategorized denver, dps, education, segregation, Stanley Kurtz 530 Comments

HUD’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” Rule Is about Social Engineering, Not Desegregation

Competitive Enterprise Institute – HUD’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” Rule Is about Social Engineering, Not Desegregation By Hans Bader, July 20, 2015 Failure to meet a racial quota is not the same thing as segregation. That basic fact has eluded the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which recently adopted a rule called “Affirmatively Furthering Continue Reading

Smith Young October 4, 2015 Knowledgeable About AFFH desegregation, disparate impact, racial imbalance, segregation 187 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"