Bill Would Nullify Obama Plot to "Diversify" Your Neighborhood
https://www.thenewamerican.com
Written by Alex Newman
Monday, 17 April 2017
Article:
Legislation has been introduced in Congress to defund and overturn a controversial Obama administration decree from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to transform and "diversify" American neighborhoods under the direction of Big Brother. The new bill would also reverse the attempted unconstitutional usurpation of power over local zoning decisions by the federal government and the unelected regional authorities charged with managing the transformation. And the measure would end a "geospatial database" mandated under the scheme to track the racial and income composition of each area, a key element of the scheme to redistribute people based on their melanin content and earnings.
The Obama administration's race-obsessed decree, known as the "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" (AFFH) rule, became a lightning rod for criticism by conservatives and constitutionalists last year. A coalition of Republican lawmakers, facing outrage among their constituents, tried to defund the unconstitutional scheme while Obama was still in office. However, establishment Republicans quietly worked behind the scenes to betray conservatives by supporting Obama's radical power grab and handing even more tax money to Obama's HUD. With those establishment lawmakers still in power, passage of the new bill remains far from assured, even with Trump in the White House, Ben Carson at HUD, and the GOP in control of both houses of Congress. But prospects are better than before, analysts say.
The bill to overturn the AFFH decree is known as the "Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017." In the House of Representatives, where it was introduced by Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), the legislation is known as H.R. 482. In the Senate, the companion bill, S. 103. was introduced by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah). Both Representative Gosar and Senator Lee led the way last year in the unsuccessful attempt to defund and defang the AFFH scheme. Supporters of the effort, though, hope this year the chances for success will be better considering the new political dynamics — at least if the American people continue to speak out.
The description of the six-page bill reads: "To nullify certain regulations and notices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes." In particular, the bill targets Obama's AFFH scheme, adopted by Obama's HUD in July of 2015, as well as any substantially similar regulation that may be published in the future. Under the legislation, the AFFH "shall have no force or effect." The department is also prohibited from using any funds to implement the scheme, or to build the associated federal database containing "geospatial information" on the racial and income composition of American communities.
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Under the expansive regulations, cities and towns that accept federal money from the HUD would be required to submit to vast federal controls over their policy decisions. For instance, if a community receives an HUD grant, the AFFH purports to mandate costly demographic analyses at the local and regional level to determine whether there are enough low-income and minority residents living in each neighborhood, as defined by HUD bureaucrats. The giant database would include records on residents including income, race, color, religion, national origin, and much more.
If the HUD determines that not enough welfare recipients live in your neighborhood, for instance, the bureaucracy would declare your community to be "out of balance" and not in compliance with the AFFH. In response, the massive bureaucracy would use taxpayer funds — or borrowed money, considering the $20 trillion and counting in national debt — to file lawsuits against the community and impose its will. That might take the form of building more government-subsidized low-income housing in your neighborhood to attract enough welfare recipients to put your community back in balance. In short, it is social engineering by the federal government on a massive scale.
In fact, HUD has been involved in such scheming for years, with targeted communities going up against the might of Uncle Sam. In Westchester County, New York, for example, the Obama administration went to war with the community and its elected officials because they did not have enough low-income, high-density housing developments to satisfy federal bureaucrats. When local officials and residents fought back, the administration sued them, and even went so far as to seek a gag order against the county executive who was leading the fight against Obama's AFFH.
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Thank God. I have seen this before. They take people from the ghetto and drop into the suburbs and guess what happens.
LBJ did this back in the 60s, emptied the ghettos and sent them out to Ca, it's why Ca is the shit hole it is today.
They called it 235 Housing.
Quote from: Solar on April 17, 2017, 07:44:21 PM
LBJ did this back in the 60s, emptied the ghettos and sent them out to Ca, it's why Ca is the shit hole it is today.
They called it 235 Housing.
They did similar things is Maryland. It went as well as expected.
Quote from: The Boo Man... on April 17, 2017, 07:50:06 PM
They did similar things is Maryland. It went as well as expected.
Yep, and just like Ca, Maryland never recovered either.
Anyone remember forced busing? Another great Democrat idea....problem is nowadays they are doing this with Islamic "refugee's". McAwful seems to think that Syrian refugee's will fit well in the Shenandoah valley.
Quote from: The Boo Man... on April 17, 2017, 07:21:38 PM
Thank God. I have seen this before. They take people from the ghetto and drop into the suburbs and guess what happens.
"In the Ghetto"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUlYONgjaoU
Quote from: Billy's bayonet on April 18, 2017, 05:34:47 AM
Anyone remember forced busing? Another great Democrat idea....problem is nowadays they are doing this with Islamic "refugee's". McAwful seems to think that Syrian refugee's will fit well in the Shenandoah valley.
Decades of incremental leftist creep, all sponsored by leftists in both party's.
Quote from: Ms.Independence on April 18, 2017, 07:33:18 AM
"In the Ghetto"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUlYONgjaoU
And just think! Half that duo was already dead!
Quote from: quiller on April 18, 2017, 08:47:14 AM
And just think! Half that duo was already dead!
And the other half eyes look like she was on drugs.
Getting back to the topic. What will Trump do? I'm guessing side with the Establishment. Trump never saw a buck he didn't like.
Quote from: Solar on April 18, 2017, 09:31:54 AM
Getting back to the topic. What will Trump do? I'm guessing side with the Establishment. Trump never saw a buck he didn't like.
How many apartments in Trump's tower will be given to poor minorities and on what floor? :rolleyes:
Wikipedia...
QuoteCabrini–Green Homes (Frances Cabrini Row-houses and William Green Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was bordered by the apex of Clybourn Ave and Halsted Street on the north, North Larrabee Street on the west, Chicago Avenue on the south, Hudson Street on the east. Today, only a small set of row houses, built in the 1940s, remain (south of Oak Street, north of Chicago Avenue, west of Hudson Avenue, and east of Larrabee Street).[1]
At its peak, Cabrini–Green was home to 15,000 people,[2] living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings totaling 3,607 units. Over the years, crime, gang violence and neglect created deplorable living conditions for the residents, and "Cabrini–Green" became synonymous with the problems associated with public housing in the United States. The last of the buildings in Cabrini–Green was demolished in March 2011.[3] The Near North Side site formerly home to the William Green projects has been undergoing major redevelopment since the late 1990s, resulting in a combination of upscale high-rise buildings and row houses, with the stated goal of creating a mixed-income neighborhood, with some units still being reserved for public housing tenants. Controversy regarding the implementation of such plans has arisen, though slated redevelopment plans are now set to move forward following the September 2015 settlement of a longstanding civil lawsuit.[2] Quote
Another socialist attempt at mixed-income housing - from Obama's stomping ground. He knows better - but, then maybe his goal was to extend the misery everywhere. Notice... it's slated for redevelopment, again.
Quote from: Billy's bayonet on April 18, 2017, 05:34:47 AM
Anyone remember forced busing? Another great Democrat idea....problem is nowadays they are doing this with Islamic "refugee's". McAwful seems to think that Syrian refugee's will fit well in the Shenandoah valley.
Sure - as fertilizer! Just because those DC clowns have overrun the state in the DC suburbs, doesn't mean that SJW crap will fly in the rest of the state.
Quote from: walkstall on April 18, 2017, 09:28:58 AM
And the other half eyes look like she was on drugs.
Ya...no kidding...good grief. Great song though.
It will be interesting to see what our Secy' of Housing and Urban Development decides to do....I still think Dr. Ben should have logically been the Surgeon General.
There was a documentary several years ago (on PBS, I think)
where they showed a welfare housing project in SE Virginia.
At first, it looked like a typical government housing project -
stark, neglected, high crime, etc.
Then they split up the outdoors into "front yards"
for each of the townhouses
by enclosing each "yard" with a picket fence.
Crime went down steeply.
Each yard looked like a "defensible space"
that deterred criminals from violating that space.
Previously, all of the outdoors area had been
one big common space where criminals roamed freely.
Plus, many of the residents planted flowers
and installed other decorations,
personalizing their own space.
The environment improved so dramatically,
many people came in and asked where the rental office was,
because they couldn't even tell that it was a welfare project!
Quote from: je_freedom on April 19, 2017, 03:39:22 PM
There was a documentary several years ago (on PBS, I think)
where they showed a welfare housing project in SE Virginia.
At first, it looked like a typical government housing project -
stark, neglected, high crime, etc.
Then they split up the outdoors into "front yards"
for each of the townhouses
by enclosing each "yard" with a picket fence.
Crime went down steeply.
Each yard looked like a "defensible space"
that deterred criminals from violating that space.
Previously, all of the outdoors area had been
one big common space where criminals roamed freely.
Plus, many of the residents planted flowers
and installed other decorations,
personalizing their own space.
The environment improved so dramatically,
many people came in and asked where the rental office was,
because they couldn't even tell that it was a welfare project!
Not all "housing" projects go as planned. I've lost count how many times they tried to revive Detroit and its still a shi* hole. Now those same neighborhoods are filled with Muslims with prayer rugs in hand as you can hear them being called to worship.
Quote from: Ms.Independence on April 19, 2017, 03:52:37 PM
Not all "housing" projects go as planned. I've lost count how many times they tried to revive Detroit and its still a shi* hole. Now those same neighborhoods are filled with Muslims with prayer rugs in hand as you can hear them being called to worship.
Detroit's problems stem from decades of corrupt DemonRat rule combined with unions driving workers jobs out of the city.