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Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods
The Hill ^ | June 11, 2015 | Tim Devaney

Posted on 06/11/2015 7:58:22 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cabrinigreen; fairhousing; fairhousingact; housing; hud; poverty; section8; wealthyneighborhoods
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To: C19fan

Straw dog to implement a plan that has the Fedzilla picking winners and losers, extorting anyone, bribing anyone.


41 posted on 06/11/2015 8:47:56 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: 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.

Hillary just stole furniture and jewelry from the White House.

Obama wants to steal entire homes.


42 posted on 06/11/2015 8:48:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Unfortunately, if you get too many “Section 8” or “ghetto” types in an neighborhood, the neighborhood goes downhill.

All you need is one.

In the McKinney incident it took ONE rental apartment to bring 100 thugs to trespass and destroy property values.

43 posted on 06/11/2015 8:54:01 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Paine in the Neck
Have a nice house or a few acres of property? You will be made to “share”.

Not if your farm has a high hill and you're prepared.

44 posted on 06/11/2015 8:55:31 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Rusty0604

This is how “unqualified borrowers” manage to buy upscale homes that they then cannot afford to maintain. Soon the formerly upscale homes begin to look like dumps and begin to drag down the property values in the rest of the neighborhood.

When “For Sale” signs go up in front of these dwellings, they are often in foreclosure......and there is a whole slew of regulations that go tandem with foreclosure proceedings. I wouldn’t be surprised if these dwellings wind up becoming group homes since it is likely that government sponsored slum lords are among the few who would even be interested in buying a piece of property such as this.


45 posted on 06/11/2015 9:04:44 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: C19fan
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited direct and intentional housing discrimination, such as a real estate agent not showing a home in a wealthy neighborhood to a black family or a bank not providing a loan based on someone’s race.

Left unsaid is that the Fair Housing Act also made the realtor practice of block busting a felony as well. Block busting occurs when realtors intentionally introduce minorities into a neighborhood with the intention of scaring whites into selling, with the realtors picking up the sale listings.

Obama's HUD clearly intends to engage in block busting in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

46 posted on 06/11/2015 9:05:21 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If that happens, then I predict a spike in interest in farm life.

Ask Victor Davis Hansen how that's working out for him.

47 posted on 06/11/2015 9:06:49 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Sons of Union Vets
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.

I learned of this just recently. A friend told me about one to be placed in the middle of a new development of pretty nice homes. It is not HOA, so the other people buying the homes won't have a clue until it is too late.
48 posted on 06/11/2015 9:12:56 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: LostInBayport
As far as I know, there is not much that they can do to prevent the group home from being placed there, but they could let their voices be heard as a neighborhood and look up the local zoning codes in order to be able to register valid complaints whenever there are any code violations like uncut lawns, trash in the yard, a zillion cars with increase in traffic, etc.

In any case, I wouldn't go it alone. People should get a group together and do a little "community organizing" of their own. In this case, it would be "community rescue." The dirtbag politicians need to learn that the people are sick and tired of this crap.

49 posted on 06/11/2015 9:35:26 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: C19fan
I have absolutely no problem with a minority family moving into my neighborhood if they can afford it. It is not cheap. Those that have share my values and that is why they moved into my neighborhood. I do not want cheap subsidized housing in my neighborhood. It brings in the riffraff regardless of their color.
50 posted on 06/11/2015 9:35:39 AM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: ladyjane
Re:Not if your farm has a high hill and you're prepared.

i.e. Lock and load????? :-)

51 posted on 06/11/2015 9:37:26 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: Nea Wood

Had the Census Bureau stop by my house and ask questions about one of my investment properties. They were frustrated by their inability to contact my tenant (hard working guy in the motion picture industry). They commented the resident is never there — I say “he actually works for a living”. They wanted me to sit through a 30 minute interview to discuss the configuration and nature of the property. End of discussion.


52 posted on 06/11/2015 9:39:09 AM PDT by KCengineer ( Speaking the TRUTH)
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To: LostInBayport
P.S. Gaps Found In Care, Safety In Mass. Group Homes

By Deborah Becker, Maggie Mulvihill and Rachel Stine

Updated December 19, 2012

BOSTON — Valerie Diaz’s worst fears were realized when she opened the door to her Connecticut home in June to find grim-faced police officers on her front stoop.

“They said, ‘Well, we have to inform you that your daughter, Malissie Holloway, was found dead in a closet,’ ” Diaz said. “I just kinda went into shock after that.

“I still can’t understand why,” Diaz said. “I don’t understand why.”

Her 24-year-old daughter, an ambitious singer afflicted with debilitating mental illnesses, had been found by workers at the Somerville, Mass., group home where she lived, dangling from a pipe. Her family is now questioning how closely Holloway was supervised at the home, run by a private vendor ( slumlord? ) hired by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.

“I don’t know how she reached that pipe that was like 12 feet in the air. I don’t know how she was able to get a slipknot,” Diaz said. “I have more than my share of questions.”

http://www.wbur.org/2012/12/18/massachusetts-group-homes

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53 posted on 06/11/2015 9:47:59 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: CondorFlight
“Let’s build public housing in Marin County, California; and Malibu. And Beverly Hills.”

In Marin County they have their own city, Marin City. Think of it as Detroit in the Redwoods. Watch the “Ghetto Brawls World's Wildest Street Fights!” on Youtube. A lot of the cops dealing with the insanity are either CHP or MCSD.

54 posted on 06/11/2015 10:01:35 AM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: C19fan

The gulagization of the nation continues.. first, destroy the inner cities,, then the suburbs.. and then the gated communities.


55 posted on 06/11/2015 10:14:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Sons of Union Vets

Of course I was thinking about bear. Had two sightings in the past two weeks. One in the driveway. Can’t be too careful with wild animals around. ;-)


56 posted on 06/11/2015 10:20:08 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: C19fan

As usual, the federal utopians display their utter disdain for reality. Next up: let’s outlaw gravity. So let it be written, so let it be done.

This quote from the article sums up the mentality perfectly: “This rule is not about forcing anyone to live anywhere they don’t want to,” said Margery Turner, senior vice president at the left-leaning Urban Institute. “It’s really about addressing long-standing practices that prevent people from living where they want to.”

News flash, Margery. Any time you introduce a law that aims to change behavior, you’ll get exactly what you wanted: changed behaviors.

What Margery and her ilk don’t get (correction: refuse to get) is that all affected parties will alter their behaviors, not just the ones you want. Just as investors change their investment strategies to match current tax codes, current residents of targeted neighborhoods will move.

So yes, Margery, you WILL have to force people to live where they don’t want to. For a good tutorial on how this works, read up on communist regimes. Any one will do. They all turned out the same.


57 posted on 06/11/2015 10:22:04 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: C19fan

Wait, I thought the big thing in the black community was to not become part of the white man’s world or become too white. Isn’t this program contrary to that thought/position.


58 posted on 06/11/2015 10:23:43 AM PDT by falcon99
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59 posted on 06/11/2015 10:26:37 AM PDT by caww
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To: yetidog

Like a hawk! :)


60 posted on 06/11/2015 10:48:04 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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