Unabashed Truth about AFFH, Protecting Property Rights and Local Government Authority
Excerpt from: American Thinker – “Obama’s Endgame” Eileen Toplansky, July 13, 2015 (3 days before the AFFH rule was posted in the Federal Register, becoming official policy) In essence, the AFFH “gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood – imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and Continue Reading
The Obama administration plots a wholesale federal intrusion into local housing policy The Weekly Standard, Oct 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06 • By TERRY EASTLAND President Obama may have been distracted by Syria, but his domestic presidency proceeds apace, seeking what he heralds as “the transformation of the United States.” Especially is this true 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
Timbers Conservatives #31 A Conservative Precinct Newsletter from Douglas County, CO August 2, 2015 The Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing Rules is a covert attempt to “economically integrate” virtually every community in every state. It “weaponizes” HUD analogous to what has happened with the DOJ, IRS and DHS. It represents a dramatic overreach of federal government 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
The administration is forcing low-income housing into wealthy enclaves, whether or not anyone wants it Wall Street Journal By Jason L. Riley June 16, 2015 Bill and Hillary Clinton are popular with black voters, but that doesn’t mean the couple wants to live around them. And vice versa. This reality troubles President Obama, though his Continue Reading
More Socialist Crap here: http://www.antibiaslaw.com/westchester-case Like more than a thousand other jurisdictions, Westchester County in New York has been a recipient of Community Development Block Grant and other federal housing funds. A condition to be eligible for federal housing grants is the promise to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH); that is, to identify, analyze, and Continue Reading
http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-blasts-obamas-race-database-as-part-of-our-growing-police-state/ Marka Fogerty sent via email: This new HUD AFFH rule is the revolution ( the bloodless revolution )Alinsky wanted: Every neighborhood taken over by committees of activists, lawyers, and Marxists with data on everyone which can be used to intimidate and force their quotas in the name of social justice and reparations and money. Continue Reading