Posted on 07/22/2013 9:59:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
To ensure that "every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of," HUD has published a new fair-housing regulation intended to give people access to better neighborhoods than the ones they currently live in.
The goal is to help communities understand "fair housing barriers" and "establish clear goals" for "improving integrated living patterns and overcoming historic patterns of segregation."
“This proposed rule represents a 21st century approach to fair housing, a step forward to ensuring that every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of – where they have a fair shot at reaching their full potential in life,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.
“For the first time ever," Donovan added, "HUD will provide data for every neighborhood in the country, detailing the access African American, Latino, Asian, and other communities have to local assets, including schools, jobs, transportation, and other important neighborhood resources that can play a role in helping people move into the middle class."
Social engineering
According to HUD, long-term solutions include "helping people gain access to different neighborhoods and channeling investments into under-served areas." The mapping tool may guide development and zoning decisions, for example.
In a July 16 speech to the NAACP, Donovan said the American Dream still isn't within equal reach of all communities. He lamented the lack of diversity in America's boardrooms, schools, and the nation's "strongest neighborhoods."
"We have got to shape a future where ladders of opportunity are available for all Americans," Donovan said. "For African Americans, this is critically important. Historically, for this community, the rungs on these ladders have been too far apart -– making it harder to reach the middle class."
Donovan said HUD's new neighborhood mapping tool, which uses Census data, will "expand access to high opportunity neighborhoods and draw attention to investment possibilities in under-served communities."
"Make no mistake, this is a big deal," Donovan said. "With the HUD budget alone, we are talking about billions of dollars. And as you know, decades ago, these funds were used to support discrimination. Now, they will be used to expand opportunity and bring communities closer to the American Dream."
Under the Fair Housing Act, HUD requires grantees, such as cities, that receive federal housing funds to "affirmatively further fair housing."
Under the proposed rule, the neighborhood data provided by HUD will be used to evaluate patterns of integration and segregation, racial and ethnic concentrations of poverty, and access to "valuable community assets." HUD wants to know if existing laws and policies -- such as zoning, financing, infrastructure planning and transportation -- create, perpetuate or alleviate segregation.
The proposed rule explicitly incorporates fair-housing decision-making into existing planning processes and "other decision-making that influences how communities and regions grow and develop."
How does Detroit look?
This is the logical conclusion of bringing the Federal Government into absolutely everything. The “Civil Rights” legislation of the 1960s actually trambled on such traditional civil rights as freedom of association.
Gee, I wish I could be given “access” to a better neighborhood than I currently live in.
Does this mean HUD will provide me with several million dollars to purchase a home in a ritzy suburb?
I bet they are going to be buying houses above market and selling or ‘giving’ them to people THEY think should live wherever they want, or wherever the gummint want them to live. Great way to break up established neighborhoods.
This happened back in the 60s and 70s. The results were a disaster. It was called neighborhood breaking as I recall.
The two largest sources of income to blacks are whitey’s tax dollars taken to hand to them, and robberies of whitey.
It’s not ‘fair’ for people to live in safe neighborhoods where their blond blue-eyed kids are safe to go out in the streets and play. The government now wants them to be raped, maimed and killed as more victims on the altar of political correctness.
What will it be? One out 20 houses in the suburbs has to be given free and clear to one of holder’s people, paid for by the hard-working owners of the other 19?
THIS IS MARXISM ON STERIODS!
To all the people who voted for the messiah, I have some words for you, that FR will not let me post.
Btw, if you’re a White living on a meager income, you don’t count. You have been labeled by the government as an oppressor, and your meager resources are going to go to some obama voter.
This is why you should always check “other” when the form asks about race. NASCAR or often works as well.
“American Indian” worked particularly well for a woman in Boston I can think of...
I’ll bet you’re right. This is one of the scariest things I’ve read in quite a while. Liberals/socialists ruin everything they touch. Everything.
I’ve been thinking about moving and this would be a helful tool to help me figure out the best neighborhood for me to move to. I’ll be looking for the most discriminatory, least diverse areas.
This may sound like a laudable goal, but, unless and until the assisted-living community (excluding the elderly and/or disabled) places a higher value on properly educating their children, not one thing will change no matter their neighborhood.
Revolt is coming.
While they are at it, why not make sure every household in the nation has a proper ethnic mixture along with every other type of diversity?
Here’s a novel idea: Try letting people live their lives free from the overreach of the federal government.
This is big and this is bad. We’ve been able to survive by avoiding going in the cities where all the $h!t happens. Now they’re going to put obama supporters near where we live.
Most people will ignore this. But when they see a brand new house that they paid for turn to trash, maybe they will notice. When their mothers are assaulted, maybe they will notice. When their kids are bullied, maybe they will notice.
Not only do they deny us jobs because of our ‘race’ but they deny us life, safety and liberty.
This is big.
Open up Martha’s Vineyard to section 8 ...
How does Detroit look?
Hmmm! Tough question! Looks like a Democratic [sic] party success story to me, but I'm just a lowly citizen and tax payer, so what would I know?
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