Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods

The Hill ^ | June 11, 2015 | Tim Devaney

[C19fan]

The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”

A final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule due out this month is aimed at ending decades of deep-rooted segregation around the country.

[FreeReign]

If that happens, then I predict a spike in interest in farm life. Seriously. If even the wealthy areas are going to be overrun with gangs and Section 8 and baby mama types, more people might want to go buy a farm, where they are surrounded by their own land, and will only go into town when absolutely necessary. Rural life could well hold more appeal if this social engineering happens.

They'll build Section 8 on farm tracts in rural counties.

[Ray76]

> “It’s really about addressing long-standing practices that prevent people from living where they want to.”

It’s called money. Pay up or shut up.

[Mouton]

Fine with me, how about everyone gets to be dictator for a day too. I think Huey Long had a saying, every man a king...well, I’d like to be king for just long enough to put that POS in a dungeon.

[Steely Tom]

this “move” has been hinted at for years ....6 of them.... if I remember correctly

You must be kidding.

Carter tried this back in 1979 and 1980.

The media will go against it because they realize the neighborhoods they live in have the crosshairs on them.

[silverleaf]

Starting in Hyde Park, Chicago ....

sarc

[Senator_Blutarski]

I’m sure this will work as well as forced busing for public schools.

Is the objective here to allow whites to participate in the same safe and secure neighborhoods that blacks enjoy?

Or is this intended boost the economy by encouraging new home construction for the next wave of white flight?

[silverleaf]

Ooooh, even I might qualify for section 8 in Georgetown

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I would not mind flooding section 8 people into Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and West Los Angeles, California. Those people have been too long isolated from the consequences of their liberal policies foisted upon the rest of us.

[VanShuyten]

Westchester already has HUD housing problems:

http://www.lohud.com/story/money/personal-finance/taxes/david-mckay-wilson/2015/05/17/new-castle-affordable-housing-resistance/27502835/

A half mile from the Clintons’ house.

[silverleaf]

Maybe Obama next vacation house should in Nanakuli

The obamas can all celebrate “kill a haole” day together with the locals

[Buckeye McFrog]

You don’t think he’s going to check Republican registration levels before selecting the neighborhoods that get new Section 8 hovels?

[Rusty0604]

Marin county nixed a plan of George Lucas, so he pushed for low income housing on the property to get even with his neighbors.

[yoe]

(And the people in the houses) All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

Under LBJ's Great Society America has been there, done that, and watched it fail under the weight of rules & regs. and government waste!

[Rusty0604]

They already force lenders to give credit to minorities that don’t qualify so they won’t be sued for discrimination.

[Nea Wood]

Few issues make me as angry as this one. People work hard to afford a nice, quiet, clean, decent neighborhood. Then that good neighborhood is HANDED to people who didn’t work to earn it, many of whom are noisy, dirty, lawless, just generally bad neighbors. Now the original residents are forced to pick up stakes and move...which is expensive and stressful for them. Soon the formerly nice neighborhood is a dump. This is being done on purpose, in neighborhood after neighborhood in this country. How do we fight back against this?

[bgill]

If that happens, then I predict a spike in interest in farm life

Don't count on that. Katrina trash was given 100+ acres of the MOST PRIME real estate in the county and they aren't paying taxes on it.

[Rusty0604]

Reminds me of the scene from “Dr. Zhavigo” when he came home from war to his house full of people living there and helping themselves to his things.

[Iron Munro]

White privlege must cease!

All minorities have a right to free McMansions.

It’s right there in the constitution for the United States of Barackistan.

Why should some people have better housing just because they have jobs and businesses and work to earn their own money?

/s

[Rusty0604]

CA has been doing this for awhile, some nice neighborhoods have been ruined.

[Sons of Union Vets]

Here in Massachusetts, we have the infamous "group homes." You can usually tell them apart form the ordinary homes because the garages have been converted by the slumlords who own them into living space so that they can make more money from rent paid vis a vis welfare. These group homes are also tax exempt. If the neighbors bitch enough when blight starts to occur, the local authorities might do code enforcement if they don't want to lose their tax-paying residents to the free riders. It is a case of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." But sometimes the local authorities are themselves part of the problem and that is how crapholes like Detroit come into existence.

Since cities have been the usual dumping grounds for these potential "dumps," the government-sponsored slumlords are looking to "gentrify" their racket by moving their group homes into the upscale suburbs where it is potentially possible to own an upscale home tax free. After they have trashed the property values of the neighborhood, they can buy more property in the same neighborhood at new lower prices and turn them into tax free group homes as well......and the beat goes on.

Granted disabled people have to have a place to live, and I don't have a hard time with group homes for people with disabilities like autism, etc. as long as there is 24-hour supervision.

What I have a problem with is group homes for druggies and ex cons - particularly when they are located right next to schools where there are young children attending.

BTW, the people in the neighborhood do not have to be informed when a group home is being established nearby.