Posted on 07/12/2015 7:08:33 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
The Supreme Court issued an important ruling last month when it reminded state and local governments that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 bars them from spending federal housing money in a manner that perpetuates racial segregation.
Last week, the Obama administration took an even more important step — one that has already changed the decades-long discussion about how to combat residential segregation. It rewrote the rules under the provision of the act that requires state and local governments to “affirmatively further” housing goals by making real efforts to cope with the cumulative results of the discrimination that confined black Americans to ghettos in the first place.
For the new rules to be effective, federal officials need to make clear that local governments can lose federal housing aid if they persist in dumping subsidized housing into depressed, racially isolated communities instead of putting more of it in integrated areas that offer better schools and job opportunities.
The fact that it has taken nearly 50 years since the law’s passage for these common-sense changes to materialize is all the more distressing, given that federally sanctioned housing discrimination has played a central role in racial ghettoization.
The Fair Housing Act was intended to break down historic patterns of segregation. But it was undercut from the start by federal officials, including presidents who believed that segregation was the natural order of things. With the threat of sanctions almost nonexistent, many state and local governments confined subsidized housing to poor minority neighborhoods and found it quite easy to hide these wrongful practices behind ineffective, vaguely worded rules and loose oversight.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What dippy libs at the Slimes and other lib rags fail to understand is that NOBODY wants to live around the BU. They are a segment of the American population that nothing can be done for. They cannot learn, they cannot assimilate, and they cannot adapt to civilized society.
True story-
A business associate lives in a suburb of St. Louis that is close enough to the chaos of Ferguson that he could hear some of the gunfire. He has a friend who has a government job helping poor people maximize their “benefits”. He was told that a woman with children can bring her “in-kind” benefits in the range of $45-50k/year which is close to median household income in the area. He has Section 8 housing nearby and sees “households” of multi-generational women who all share a single apartment and few permanent adult males.
His neighborhood had its first (successful) drive-by shooting recently.
This is the future that our progressive overlords are hell-bent to bring to more suburban areas, that are just too peaceful and too “normal”.
In other news, Obama recently announced that new public housing units should have solar panels to help make them more energy efficient and to help sales of solar panel equipment.
So, there you are. Every suburb will get its own solar-powered, taxpayer funded, mini-Ferguson enclave in the name of ecology and social justice.
Vote Progressive!
Import more poor illegals and get more poverty-socialism is spreading the misery so everyone gets some.
"The Fair Housing Act was intended to break down historic patterns of segregation."
No, it was intended to destroy ethnic neighborhoods people chose to live in so they could live around folks with the same background, heritage, and values, they grew up with and were familiar with.
Having granted themselves an excuse and with the aid of groups who funded "block busting", the "Great Society welfare plantations" were then created in order to keep black folks in the role of an indigent minority that could be planted en masse' into districts where there was resistance to social changes the democrat fascist party was planning. When a conservative ethnic group scatters across multiple districts rather than staying concentrated, replacing that ethnic group with a large number of welfare plantation residents effectively takes a district permanently out of contention during elections.
Basically, they put a House seat under the control of a national power block rather than that same seat remaining under the control of the voters in the State. Having moved contention for Senate seats from the State level to the national level with the 17th Amendment, the "progressives" then proceeded to alter House representation the same way by carefully placing welfare plantations in districts they couldn't rely on to go along with a national democrat social agenda.
Look for this ruling to lead to more of the same, mass migration of people owe everything they have to the Federal government from districts now safely under control of the democrat party into districts they cannot control.
JMHo
My friend’s house value has fallen by half. I asked him who he would sell to. He says that there are lots of buyers who are minorities who get special consideration for home financing and who will go in on the purchase with other relatives. Sort of an instant multi-generational housing project in a box, complete with feral children.
He can no longer leave his car parked on the street in front of his home without it getting broken into.
Federally mandated reverse gentrification.
Mr. niteowl77
I think you're right. When I first read about this I was thinking; "good luck, if the people don't have cars you'll have create a massive public transport extension that will never meet any needs,
but if the real intent was to break up nice(r) neighborhoods in the very same cities that the gimmedats are already in, that's some thing else entirely. In Philadelphia there's a game of 'cat and mouse' that's been going on since at least the early 70's.
When the trash moves in, the good people move out. This over the years has created a "bullseye" affect when you map out the go and no go zones in Philly. I lived in the Juniata neighborhood when I was young, it was great, nice, clean, safe ...
Most racial groups don't have 'white' skin - yet they're accepted into 'white' neighborhoods.
Why?
Is black culture the reason all other racial groups avoid living with blacks?
Think about it.
The first thing blacks do when they get a little money is MOVE AWAY from 'the black community'. Even President Obama shows the pattern... Since becoming President he and his family have NOT vacationed in ONE BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
Martha's Vineyard is as lily white as it comes...
These are issues the country needs to talk about...
Great comments!
Millions of illegal invaders and now this.
“This is the kind of thinking that makes me embarrassed to be a liberal.”
But how will he vote next time?
“In other news, Obama recently announced that new public housing units should have solar panels to help make them more energy efficient and to help sales of solar panel equipment.”
Until they are stolen or destroyed.
A key point. My subdivision is about 25% black, including both American blacks and immigrants from Africa. Another 25% or more is Latino, from several countries and Puerto Rico. Other immigrants: Russian and Ukrainian, Polish, Lebanese, Pakistani. And American white people, both from around here and Up North.
Everyone lives in reasonable amity ... an occasional parking or noise dispute ... house and lawn maintenance is pretty good to excellent, with no distinction by race or nationality. A few teenage-crime issues, again without a racial correlation.
“The “smartest” people in the world can’t fathom why people move away when poor anti-social criminals move into the neighborhood.”
And when affluent pioneers move in to older, run down neighborhoods in an effort to restore formerly charming old houses, it is called gentrification and the black “leaders” scandalize it as destroying their “culture”. No way to win here.
Perfect customers for solar equipment because they completely indifferent as to whether they work.
How about Sidwell ?
So basically, they are declaring black neighborhoods inferior
This won’t affect the super rich because they can by 1,000 acres in Wyoming, and so , who cares ?
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