Obama administration using housing department in effort to diversify neighborhoods

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Social EngineeringFrom FoxNews.com:

In a move some claim is tantamount to social engineering, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is imposing a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America’s neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory. 

The policy is called, “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.” It will require HUD to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every single neighborhood and try to remedy it.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan unveiled the federal rule at the NAACP convention in July.

What?  “Social engineering” in the Obama Administration?  I find that simply difficult to believe.

Data from this discrimination database would be used with zoning laws, housing finance policy, infrastructure planning and transportation to alleviate alleged discrimination and segregation.

Please note the operative word in the above sentence: “alleged.”

And sanity weighs in for just a brief moment:

“This is just the latest of a series of attempts by HUD to social engineer the American people,” said Ed Pinto, of the American Enterprise Institute. “It started with public housing and urban renewal, which failed spectacularly back in the 50’s and 60’s. They tried it again in the 90’s when they wanted to transform house finance, do away with down payments, and the result was millions of foreclosures and financial collapse.”

Some fear the rule will open the floodgates to lawsuits by HUD —  a weapon the department has already used  in places like Westchester County, N.Y., where mayors and attorneys representing several towns, like Cortlandt, are writing HUD to protest burdensome fair housing mandates that go far beyond those agreed to in a 2009 settlement with HUD.

Wait.  This wouldn’t punish people like, say, the ADA has punished businesses small and large for years, becoming the proverbial cash cow for tort lawyers — would it?

Potentially the most disturbing paragraph in the entire article:

Also troublesome to critics is that the HUD secretary, in announcing this proposed rule, blamed poverty on zip codes – rather than other socio-economic factors that studies have shown contribute to poverty.

Right.  Zip codes are to blame.

BZ

 

 

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4 thoughts on “Obama administration using housing department in effort to diversify neighborhoods”

  2. This is the same as segregated busing nonsense. People look to buy in a certain neighborhood, with one of the bigger selling features being that this or that neighborhood has a great school system…only to find out your child can’t go to the school three blocks away and instead must be bussed 20 miles to some third rate school where he or she will be the minority and the teachers are absolute idiots. But not to worry, those fine schools right up the street in your neighborhood will be useful to the hood rats that gets bussed in from 20 miles away from some shithole neighborhood.

    What the govt can NOT stop and has been very effective in leveling out all neighborhoods is WHITE FLIGHT. Any municipality that tries this shit will find itself with the desired homeowners selling and moving elsewhere, with lots of low home values and lots of low income and welfare citizens in which to try and collect sufficient taxes. There goes the neighborhood.

    What I can soon envision is the govt making it illegal or very costly for whites to sell there homes so as to essentially FORCE them to stay so they can implement their BS scheme. This will promote more gated communities and higer home values in prominately white neighborhoods that will ensure scumbags can’t move in.

    And as for “white flight”, it is NOT a racist thing. Most of us do not mind living with blacks or any other color people for that matter…we just don’t want scumbags in our neighborhood. Why it is that 13% of the population accounts for a much larger percentage of neighborhood crime is for another discussion…but it is a statistic that is not missed when choosing to buy a home.

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