A home in Westchester (HUD forces county to build "affordable housing" in high-income neighborhoods)

New York Post ^ | 05/01/2013

[SeekAndFind]

When Americans think of the federal government taking on locals to combat racism, they think of Ike sending troops into a Little Rock high school, of JFK sending the National Guard to Ole Miss or LBJ announcing on television the FBI’s arrest of Klansmen for killing a Freedom Rider.

Now the Obama administration is arguing that the leafy hamlets of Westchester County are guilty of their own racial discrimination. And the Department of Housing and Urban Development is using all the power it has to bring the locals to heel.

The leverage comes from a 2009 consent decree designed to counter what HUD says is housing discrimination. The decree obligates Westchester to build 750 units of “affordable” housing in high-income, largely white neighborhoods and “market them aggressively” to minorities. The county is doing so, and is even ahead of schedule.

That hasn’t satisfied HUD, because it’s really after something different: a standard of discrimination based on statistics, not actual demonstrations of people who have been denied housing because of race. It’s called “disparate impact.”

In other words, what we have here is social engineering. As one of its officials has admitted, HUD wants “to remove zip codes as a factor in the quality of life in America.” In other words, anyone has the right to live anywhere — even if he can’t afford it. So even though blacks and Hispanics and other racial minorities who can afford Westchester housing prices are as welcome as anyone, HUD sees only racism.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has been fighting this, and losing, for some years. The latest wrinkle was a threat from Justice to hold Astorino in contempt if he did not introduce legislation that would require landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers — public assistance — for rentals.

[Mike Darancette]

The low income people will find that there are fewer public accomodations in the tony neighborhoods.

[Mike Darancette]

Ban you imagine how happy the minority Americans who have made it to the good life will be to welcome the riffraff into their neighborhoods.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: It seems the only thing that the Lib’s don’t want the government in is the bedroom.

Really? Then why do they want the government to force others to celebrate what gays do in their bedrooms?

[Amberdawn]

Rub their faces in it. When their property rates drop and crime increases, we can then laugh at them.

[Lancey Howard]

County totals:
234,778 OBAMA
131,139 ROMNEY

Congratulations to Westchester - - they are getting exactly what they vote for.

[Ray76]

Burn baby burn. We don’t need no water...

Nice homes there though, it would be a shame.

[democratsaremyenemy]

Good, give them leftist a little bit of their own medicine.The people in New York deserve eveything they get. Too bad they didn’t do this on Martha’s Vinyard about 30 years ago so old Teddy could have enjoyed what he had been forcing down our throats for years...

[Gay State Conservative]

Anyone with some spare time on their hands should google “Commonwealth Day School” and “Cambridge”.After some reading (much of it from the Harvard Crimson) you'll see just what the Illuminati of Harvard Square think about having little black boys and girls in their midst...even for only a few daylight hours.

(Yes,the Harvard-types featured in the stories live in the richest part of Cambridge...$4 million homes).

[PghBaldy]

Now, they are going to meddle, nationwide:

HUD's New 'Fair Housing' Rule Establishes Diversity Data for Every Neighborhood in U.S.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/huds-new-fair-housing-rule-establishes-diversity-data-every-neighborhood-us

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In MD ( THE Freak state)(Montgomery county), they require MPDUs (moderately priced dwelling units) to be constructed in some proportion in any development over 50 units. Some years ago MPDUs were built in Avenel (a wealthy golf course subdivision). The recipients of the counties largesse complained that the smaller brick units looked like slave quarters! Ingrates.

[hal ogen]

In MD ( THE Freak state)(Montgomery county), they require MPDUs (moderately priced dwelling units) to be constructed in some proportion in any development over 50 units. Some years ago MPDUs were built in Avenel (a wealthy golf course subdivision). The recipients of the county's largesse complained that the smaller brick units looked like slave quarters! Ingrates.