Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
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
Just FYI WSJ – Credit Restrictions Cost Home Buyers ‘Deal of a Lifetime’ After prices and rates dropped, regulators and lenders made it harder for borrowers to get loans By Nick Timiraos Dec. 4, 2016 Sean Dobson wanted to start a mortgage bank four years ago to serve borrowers with middling credit or irregular income. He eventually Continue Reading
“They took that problem and made it worse” said Shawn Evenhaim, chief executive of Los Angeles developer California Home Builders, said he stopped purchasing land months ago that would fall under the new requirements, anticipating the initiative would pass. He has enough land to get him through the next two to three years, but after Continue Reading
Introduction by Smith Young “:)” HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, rule falls within the most difficult category of regulations to peel back. Here’s a quick read ahead of what’s in the following WSJ article specifically: New Regulations. The third leg of this regulatory reversal is the most difficult: Repealing Obama regulations that went through Continue Reading
Introduction by Smith Young, “:)” Why does Rockland County, NY require a Commission on Human Rights? This sounds very much like a type of European Union (EU) governmental entity set up to mitigate problems due to the Syrian immigration. Just saying, from a Colorado perspective we have to wonder what kind of diverse cesspool is Continue Reading
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