Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Archives - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Dallas Nonprofit Housing Authority Loses Racial Bias Suit

This is a very good description of how the decision was reached The Dallas Morning News – After Supreme Court victory, Dallas nonprofit loses racial bias suit against Texas agency By Julieta Chiquillo Follow @jmchiquillo jchiquillo@dallasnews.com The Dallas Morning News Published: 31 August 2016 A Texas agency has won an eight-year legal fight in Dallas Continue Reading

Smith Young August 31, 2016 Uncategorized Dallas Morning News, disparate impact, Inclusive Communities Project, Sidney Fitzwater, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs 1,476 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"