June 2017 - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

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Fighting Poverty Isn’t Brain Surgery, but Ben Carson Can Do Both

Ben Carson is one of the original thought leaders on AFFH, read his excellent article on AFFH, click Experimenting with failed socialism again published in the Washington Times July 23, 2015. And Jason Riley is in the same place, read his excellent article on AFFH, click Obama Wants to Pick the Clintons’ Neighbors June 16, Continue Reading

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HUD Comment Letter on Reducing the AFFH Regulatory Burden

Ariel Pereira Associate General Counsel for Legislation and Regulations Regulations Division Office of General Counsel Department of Housing and Urban Development 451 7th Street SW., Room 10276 Washington, DC 20410-0001 RE: Docket No. FR-6030-N-01 Reducing Regulatory Burden: Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda Under Executive Order 13777 Dear Ms. Pereira: Douglas County, Colorado has the following Continue Reading

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Why HUD’s Deep State AFFH Rule is so unAmerican

HUD’s AFFH rule, an Obama pride and joy, is the epitome of administrative tyranny. Even the insultingly misnamed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing is a misrepresentation used to conceal the means to an end. A “way of restraining agencies—one President Trump could adopt on his own—would be to require them to submit new rules to Congress 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"