Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
Just keep in mind who’s promoting Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH; it’s HUD and all the public housing authority type organizations; all of whom are attacking the suburbs with their loser policies. click here for the original Washington Post article published August 27 by Lisa Rein. In a letter this week, the director of the Public Continue Reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 25, 2015 APPEALS COURT SAYS “NO FINDING” WESTCHESTER ENGAGED IN HOUSING DISCRIMINATION Astorino says ruling vindicates fight to protect home rule and local zoning In a major vindication for all of Westchester County’s municipalities, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in a ruling issued today that Continue Reading
Marco Rubio is a cosponsor of Senate bill S1909 opposing AFFH and Ben Carson wrote an article in the Washington Times comparing AFFH to busing during the 1970’s. We are not promoting Bush’s candidacy, but in this article published in the Wall Street Journal 23 September, “How I’ll Slash the Regulation Tax”, Jeb says he’ll Continue Reading
Obama with smirking Julian Castro, HUD Secretary THEDAILYSIGNAL, Sep 8, 2015 By Vanessa Calder, (click here for article) The U.S. inspector general estimates that 25,226 households occupying public housing units exceed the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)’s 2014 eligibility income limits. In New York City, one household was making an Continue Reading
Next City By Alexis Stephens | July 10, 2015 HUD Secretary Julián Castro had a busy day in Chicago on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) When large-scale housing interventions come from government — whether a city’s housing task force or the head of HUD — there’s inevitably going to be people who say the government is Continue Reading
(AFFH website note: While CDBG is the largest HUD grant program by far, it’s important to keep in mind that there are several other smaller HUD grant programs, and taking even a dollar from any one of them leaves a locality vulnerable to de facto federal takeover.) National Review by Stanley Kurtz July 31, 2015 Continue Reading
‘Mandatory inclusionary zoning’ is the central principle Wall Street Journal By Josh Barbanel, July 31, 2015 During his 2013 mayoral campaign, Bill de Blasio vowed to require developers who benefit from future city zoning changes to include large numbers of affordable apartments in their projects. Nineteen months later, he has unveiled a plan to make Continue Reading