Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority

HUD Releases Introduction to AFFH and the New Rule Webcast

See new training video and be amazed at the similarity to planning in the early U.S.S.R., click “Encyclopedia Britannica article”, then click “New AFFH Rule Webcast”, (55 min.) video (below) training participants will learn: The legal basis for AFFH Requirements under the recently released rule The following excepts are from the Encyclopedia Britannica: Economic planning, the process by which key economic Continue Reading

What? HUD Selling and Financing its Own Low Income High Density Housing!

By Smith Young, It’s a conflict of interest when on one hand HUD is effectively selling housing to a targeted group while on the other hand pushing money across the table to finance them. Looking at it that way, there’s something wrong with this picture. The above is an honest generalization based on the dirty Continue Reading

Douglas County, CO Not Happy with HUD

Proactive Douglas County, Colorado is seeking to resolve issues with HUD’s AFFH Assessment Tool.  The county is one of 1200 entitlement communities that accept Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.  From what we can tell, HUD is not acknowledging issues. On September 22, 2015 Douglas County Commissioners made requests to: Senator Cory Gardner’s Senator Michael Continue Reading

The Foolish Wisdom of Cities

by Smith Young, HUD and DPS want it both ways In an attempt to provide affordable low income housing everywhere the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, city policy makers, and even educators, i.e., in Denver Public Schools, DPS, want to force integration by attracting minorities to the suburbs while attracting whites into the Continue Reading

Can the courts stop HUD and the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, AFFH, Rule?

by Smith Young I started this article as a draft a few weeks ago triggered by reading about the courts role in pushing back on EPA regulations and asking why not push back HUD too. Although the facts associated with HUD and the EPA are totally different, the canonical form of the cases appears to Continue Reading

Cities w/o Suburbs- Elected Officials w/o Power reduced to Puppets of the AFFH state

By Evelyn Zur Dear ELECTED OFFICIALS IN ALL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY  Our 3 Commissioners:  Dave Weaver, Roger Partridge,  Jill Repella, and the Good Town Council Members throughout Douglas County. Douglas County has a HUD TARGET ON it’s back…This time around…the HUD grants we have become accustomed to come as wolves wrapped in sheep’s clothing. HUD’s Continue Reading

Weekly Standard: Coercive Federalism and Westchester County

Click “Coercive Federalism” article, Weekly Standard, 26 October 26, 2015 By Terry Eastland Some 45 municipalities and communities make up Westchester County, the prosperous, heavily Democratic jurisdiction just north of New York City whose most famous residents are Bill and Hillary Clinton. Like many localities across the country, Westchester has long been a recipient of Continue Reading