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Lee, Rubio, Cotton, and More Move to Block AFFH in Senate

by Stanley Kurtz July 31, 2015, An excerpt: It’s not impossible that Republicans in Congress might succeed in defunding or repealing AFFH. Much depends on the precise form in which funding for HUD is passed, as a separate bill or as part of a massive omnibus spending bill.  Obama has his veto power, but it’s Continue Reading

How HUD Will Legally Enslave Your Community

 click: www.sustainablefreedomlab.org By John Anthony, Sustainable Freedom Lab, LLC Local rule died in America on July 8, 2015.  With it passes the rights of rural and suburban communities to decide their own futures.  The trigger was the final 377-page ruling from HUD called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing[1] that attempts to remove discrimination and achieve balanced Continue Reading

Americhicks on Radio Hosting Cornelia Mrose from targeted Westchester, NY

Two sound tracks: Cornelia Mrose talks about Dodd Frank, a daunting law that forces fair housing into communities. She also gives examples of supporters and opponents to the bill and how it was passed. Now that it has passed, she describes how it is enforced. Cornelia Mrose outlines how her county in NY is being Continue Reading

Douglas County’s Response Notice to HUD’s AFFH Rule

To Whom It May Concern: Douglas County, Colorado has developed a response to the notice of proposed information collection (FR-5173-N-05) entitled “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assessment Tool: Solicitation of Comment-30-Day Notice Under Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995” published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2015. Douglas County supports Fair Housing and has made every Continue Reading

HOA Covenants Defenseless Against HUD AFFH

HOA Meeting Tonight

Homeowner Associations need to be notified about the new insultingly misnamed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, rule and HUD’s intent on ignoring local zoning laws, not  the least of which are HOA covenants. Neighborhoods with HOA’s are typically in desireable suburb locations where the value of both the homes within the HOA and the surrounding Continue Reading

Before AFFH there was the Fair Housing Act

Roger Clegg, President of the Center for Equal Opportunity, wrote “The government should not be requiring, encouraging, or permitting the use of racial and ethnic classifications and race- and ethnicity-based decision making in order to achieve a particular racial and ethnic mix” And we need AFFH because? The federal Fair Housing Act protects seven classes Continue Reading

Lake County Board to approve CDBG grant compliant with HUD AFFH program

FiscalRangers By Vance Jochim, Tuesday, August 4, 2015   –    Tavares, FL (Lake County) The Lake County Board’s agenda for today’s Tuesday, August 4th 9am meeting includes a “consent” agenda (meaning it will not be discussed in the meeting and is approved automatically) item Tab 3 for the annual plan for CDBG Federal grants received by the Continue Reading