Posted on 07/22/2017 6:04:50 AM PDT by RightGeek
I’ve been critical of President Trump today. But few days go by without me being happy he defeated Hillary Clinton.
Here’s a reminder of why. Yesterday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced that his agency will “reinterpret” the ultra-instrusive Obama housing rule known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH). The rule was designed by the Obama administration to seize federal control over local zoning for the purpose of creating neighborhoods that comply with the left’s race-based vision of where people should live. We discussed it here, among other places.
Secretary Carson didn’t say exactly how he plans to “reinterpret” AFFH. However, he told the Washington Examiner that he doesn’t believe in the “manipulation” associated with the rule or with the burdens it imposes on local communities. As a candidate for president, he called it “a doomed-to-fail attempt to “legislate racial equality.”
Carson’s announcement comes on the heels of a decision by HUD to accept Westchester County’s analysis of the impact its zoning rules have had in creating barriers to fair housing. The analysis concluded that its zoning rules are not the cause of the concentrations of white, hispanic, and black populations that exist in the County.
Reportedly, the analysis submitted by the County — its eleventh attempt to satisfy HUD — was basically the same as an analysis submitted to, and rejected by, the Obama administration. The difference, of course, is the new administration.
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The problem, though, is that the next administration might revert to the Obama approach. The AFFH rule could be re-re-interpreted and then used to ensnare localities that accept federal housing money. There would be no need to sue them.
That’s the problem with merely reinterpreting AFFH. The rule should be eliminated.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
The HUD rule requires 1,200 cities and counties, which get $3 billion of annual community development block grants from the agency, to rezone neighborhoods along income and racial specifications. Otherwise, the localities will lose these block grants.
“If any aspect of a community’s housing and demographic patterns fails to meet HUD bureaucrats’ expansive definition of ‘fair housing,’ the local government must submit a plan to reorganize the community’s housing practices according to the preferences and priorities of the bureaucrats,” said Lee who attempted to defund the AFFH rule through an amendment on the funding bill last year.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/21/carson-no-plans-to-rescind-affh-just-reinterpret-it/
Get rid of the AFFH rule.
Reinterpret? Interpret this.
SCRAP the CRAP.
Sanctuary neighborhood not good.
Better idea : scrap the HUD “block grants”. Legislatively eliminate them. If there’s no federal money, then the feds have no power to impose rules for places to qualify for federal money.
Similarly, scrap federal transportation grants, and lower federal gasoline tax accordingly. No federal money = no federal rule making.
De-fund the federal departments and lay off the people while you’re at it.
The problem continues through to the local municipalities that accept HUD block grants which puts them squarely in the Fed's "authority" to tell them what to do.
Don't take the money = Federal Bureaucrats can't tell a municipality what to do.
Local bureaucrats in the beautiful area that I live in wanted to take the money, it was fought tooth and nail with same bureaucrats getting dumped from office at election time.
That's exactly how it should be. Local control by an informed electorate keeps the overarching federal bureaucrats from telling us what to do.
We have a beautiful Central Park downtown with a canal that comes from river water running through it. The park was full of homeless and transients. I believe the city got a block grant to build because they came up with grand plans to build beautiful housing around this park. They advertised it as the beginning of a perfect neighborhood with shops moving in, etc. Anyway, they finally finished it. It was gorgeous in a gorgeous setting. About a year later I drove through. Graffiti on the buildings and trash cans. I looked around and the populace was black. They’ve had a couple of shootings there.
The point is you can build them beautiful places to live and it just doesn’t matter. They turn it to crap.
“The problem, though, is that the next administration might revert to the Obama approach. The AFFH rule could be re-re-interpreted and then used to ensnare localities that accept federal housing money. There would be no need to sue them. That’s the problem with merely reinterpreting AFFH. The rule should be eliminated.”
Yes, don’t “reinterpret” it, Ben. Surgically remove it altogether.
Looks like the liberals in Northern Westchester dodged a bullet.
Back in the 60s I had a friend whose father was called one of the largest slumlords in DC. My friend once asked his father why he did not provide better housing, and learned a lesson. “Go pick any four apartments you like. Have my work crew fix them up with the best of everything. Make sure it is done just as you want”, his father told him. One year later my friend went back and found all of them trashed by the tenants.
This was one of bammy’s hate bombs - a sign of his deep hatred for the country that he hates. His final push to destroy what we appreciate so much: a place to live without crime, rape or savages blowing themselves up. Bammy’s action left me depressed. I was thinking “Now where the f*ck can we go to get away from bammy’s troublemakers?” We left the cities for the suburbs, and they followed us there, raping, killing and stealing. We went farther away and were safe. That enraged bammy, who hates us so much, and he tried to take even that away from us.
Trump, for all his faults, is closing the borders, sending illegals home, and restoring the peace we once had but lost under bammy.
F*ck bammy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429693/affh-preview-obamas-hud-takes-over-dubuque-iowa
...Dubuque [Iowa, 180 miles from Chicago] was pressured to cede large swathes of its governing authority to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has forced the city to direct its limited low-income “Section 8” housing resources, not to its own needy citizens, but to voucher-holders from Chicago...
As I recall, the problem was that the Section 8 waiting list in Dubuque was mainly white, and so the Obama administration wanted to send them some gangbangers from Chicago. Meet the new racism.
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