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

Compassionate letter to Elected-Official about his vote to accept HUD grants

Introductory email with letter attached: Donald, you should recognize most of the people on this email as friends and longtime supporters. Each volunteered comments and spoke at the June 27, 2017 BOCC meeting objecting to Jefferson County accepting HUD grants. All have contributed to the content of the attached letter either in writings, discussions, and Continue Reading

Smith Young August 15, 2017 Knowledgeable About AFFH Commissioner, Jefferson County, vote 335 Comments

Douglas County Colorado Boots Out HUD

Introduction by Smith Young “:) “Is accepting free federal money to become a thing of the past? On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 the Colorado Douglas County Board of Commissioners voted and made a landmark decision to decline 2016 HUD CDBG grants! On the same day Lora Thomas won the Republican primary to replace the open Continue Reading

Smith Young July 6, 2016 Just News Affordable Housing, douglas county, vote 278 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"