October 2016 - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

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Growth of Land Use Regulations Slowing Economic Mobility

Introduction by Smith Young “:)” HUD would like to have it both ways; impose regulations on local governments while increasing affordable housing at the same time. Although not directly related to the AFFH rule, this article demonstrates the trend in which the wealth gap between the poorest and the wealthiest states was steadily closing has Continue Reading

Smith Young October 21, 2016 Knowledgeable About AFFH land use, regulations 1,415 Comments

Reboundng and Finding Money after Community Declines HUD Grants

It was immediately apparent that a vacuum was created after Douglas County Colorado Board of Commissioners voted to decline taking HUD grants. As part of the decision, a proposal was made to seek alternative sources of funds, specifically to evaluate the prospect of establishing a fund(s) for matching donations given to existing non-profit grant recipients. Continue Reading

Smith Young October 16, 2016 Douglas County, CO,Misc Letters, Handouts, and Tips charities, non-profits, PHA 1,191 Comments

FBI, HUD probing Lyons’, Colorado spending on 2013 flood recovery

Denver Post – FBI, HUD probing Lyons’, Colorado spending on 2013 flood recovery Town officials circumspect on details of the probe By John Aguilar | jaguilar@denverpost.com October 5, 2016 LYONS — The FBI and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development are conducting a twin probe into how this small town north of Boulder Continue Reading

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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"