Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
Houston Chronicle – What Ben Carson at HUD could mean for Houston He’s opposed ‘government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality’ By Leah Binkovitz, Kinder Institute for Urban Research December 8, 2016 Ben Carson, recently named secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “These government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality create consequences that often make matters worse,” Continue Reading
Dr. Ben Carson, HUD Secretary To-Be, has a clear and unbiased view of HUD’s AFFH programs as social engineering. HUD and AFFH under Obama have become a proxy for opportunity under the government’s umbrella, i.e., HUD as the “opportunity agency” now exists with an unjustified mission to collaborate with EPA, DOT, as well as offering Continue Reading
Introduction by Smith Young “):” The bad news is that it may take President Trump and Dr. Ben Carson years to kill AFFH and this is what they are up against (as described by the WSJ article below for EPA). Mr. Trump has said his administration will take aim at regulations to undo some of Continue Reading
Introduction by Smith Young “:)” The article below doesn’t mention HUD’s role in helping create the housing shortage, but it does identify: Local building restrictions, meanwhile, have added thousands of dollars to the cost of building so-called starter homes in recent years, builders said. An example of HUD’s manipulation is the HUD questionnaire “America’s Affordable Continue Reading
By Smith Young Like school busing, AFFH becomes a court order when local governments accept grants and sign that they will Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH). It’s effectively a court order backed up by the False Claims Act such that local governments make the community liable and can find themselves in expensive lawsuits if they Continue Reading
Introduction by Smith Young “:)” If we can learn from the past “school busing” failure, here’s predictive information for HUD’s 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. The full text of the article follows this introduction. Ted Van Dyk say’s “Following passage of the Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, and attendant Great Society legislation aimed Continue Reading
WSJ – Luxury Home Sales in U.S. Continue to Rise Study finds the number of homes priced above $600,000 grew in 37 out of the 43 counties analyzed By Chris Kirkham Dec. 9, 2016 Sales of luxury homes in most parts of the U.S. have continued to increase over the last year, according to an analysis Continue Reading
Dr. Ben Carson doesn’t need an introduction, but you may want to read the Washington Times article he published July 23, 2015 immediately after HUD published the the AFFH rule in the Federal Register. Read Ben’s Washington Times article about AFFH, click Experimenting with Failed Socialism Again Dr. Carson served as director of pediatric neurosurgery Continue Reading