HUD's New 'Fair Housing' Rule Establishes Diversity Data for Every Neighborhood in U.S.

CNS News ^ | 7/22/2013

[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."

[Envisioning]

“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."

That's funny, I must have missed the "NO AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINO OR ASIAN" signs in my neighborhood. /s

In fact, I believe we have some of each. Of course, they are of the variety that CONTRIBUTE to society....

[Popman]

This is complete BS...I live in a upper middle class neighborhood. ...my neighbor on my left is a black man...my neighbor across the street is a homosexual blackman living with a whiteman...two doors down is a hispanic family...the other side is a single mom....

My street is about as diverse as they come....

We don’t uncle sugar to force people into our neighborhoods...

All these people including myself work hard to be able to afford to live where we do...

[Steve_Seattle]

Leftism is metastasizing rapidly under Obama - reaching into every community, every household. It is totalitarianism.

[Steve_Seattle]

The Great Society, Part 2? We know how well that worked.

[boomop1]

They don’t need to come to my neighborhood we have Black, Hispanic, Whites and crazy people.

[Steve_Seattle]

So if their database shows there aren’t enough blacks in my community, what do they do, or what do they force the community to do? Subsidize blacks moving in? Will they ship whites into black areas? Will the data be used to “stuff” minorities into swing districts to tip them Democratic?

[Steve_Seattle]

The other day someone sent me a photo montage comparing Hiroshima to Detroit. Hiroshima, leveled by an atomic bomb about 67 years ago, is now a bustling, thriving, glittering jewel of a city. Detroit, after 60 years of progressivism, is a dump. This kind of legislation will spread the pain.

[AppyPappy]

I’m a transracial. I identify as a black man even though I am white. We need to count transracials according to the race by which they identify themselves. We need to quit asking people “What race are you?” and start asking “According to your current feelings, what race are you??”.

[Steve_Seattle]

"That's funny, I must have missed the "NO AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINO OR ASIAN" signs in my neighborhood. /s"

I live in a Seattle suburb with few blacks but quite a few Asians and Hispanics. There is nothing here that needs fixing by HUD.

[Steve_Seattle]

"“According to your current feelings, what race are you??”."

When I was a kid, my favorite athletes were Hank Aaron and Elgin Baylor. During my teens and twenties, I was deeply interested in blues music and once was the only white person attending a concert by Jimmy Witherspoon. Perhaps in those days I could have semi-seriously claimed to identify with blackness. But in recent years, that has all gone away - the politics of the black community, the decline in black culture, the rise of rap, the Obama worship, all utterly turn me off.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Leftism is metastasizing rapidly under Obama - reaching into every community, every household.

Part of the plan to wipe-out red areas on the map. They took a solemn vow 30 years ago. No More Reagans!!

[Myrddin]

Stomping all over the 5th amendment. After you have worked for years to buy a home in a nice part of town, the government inserts some section 8 inhabitants with their drug dealing, murdering, raping, sexual predator and burglarizing behaviors. Down goes your property values. The nice people leave and more section 8 is heaped upon the area. Your neighborhood has been converted into a crime infested pig wallow to assuage the conscience of some liberal asshole who doesn't have to live with the consequences.

[unread]

I believe it's all about the expansion of drug territory's for gangs in the inter cites...The more crime, the quicker our country finds its end...

The entire system is corrupt.....

I also believe that if we don't start fighting back this government is going to kill a LOT of us....soon.

[little jeremiah]

ACK? Nachum, is this something for your list? It has to be for someone’s list!

I feel as though I am being strangled to death just by reading the news every day.

[BwanaNdege]

Gee, do you think that HUD will subsidize my rent so that I may live in om of these neighborhoods? (Not that I'd really WANT to do so.)

"The Elite 100: America’s Highest Income Neighborhoods"

Rank	Place	City	Mean Household Income	% Black	% Asian	% Hispanic	% NonHispanic White
1	Holmby Hills	Los Angeles	$585,925	3.8	3.8	0	88.5
2	Buell Mansion-Cherry Hills Park	Cherry Hills Village	$582,129	0	3.9	7.2	88.9
3	Round Hill-North Greenwich	Greenwich	$541,565	0	0	1.3	91.6
4	St. Louis Country Club	Ladue	$464,046	0	0	0	100
5	Merrywood-Knollwood (Short Hills)	Millburn Township	$461,340	0	6.8	0	93.2
6	Indian Hill Club-Woodley Road	Winnetka-New Trier Township	$459,070	0	1.2	1.5	94.6
7	Jupiter Island	Jupiter Island	$448,796	0	0	1.1	98.9
8	North Beverly Hills-Peavine Canyon	Beverly Hills	$440,913	0	3.9	1.8	94.2
9	Burning Tree Country Club	Greenwich	$436,402	1.7	9.9	0	88.5
10	Midtown	Manhattan	$434,824	0	6.1	3.2	88.9

[Charles Martel]

Open up Martha’s Vineyard to section 8 ...

Now you know that famous Democrat playgrounds such as Martha's Vinyard and the Hamptons are the equivalent of Soviet-era dachas on the Volga River. Symbols of party privilege.

[BwanaNdege]

Any guesses as to which neighborhoods HUD goes after first?

Place	City	Mean Household Income	% Black	% Asian	% Hispanic	% NonHispanic White
St. Louis Country Club	Ladue	$464,046	0	0	0	100
Everglades Golf Club	Palm Beach	$411,652	0	0	0	100
Chestnut Hill (Estate Section)	Philadelphia	$344,651	0	0	0	100
Eastover	Charlotte	$333,412	0	0	0	100
Kenwood	Bethesda	$326,691	0	0	0	100
Shoal Creek-Stonegate Farms	Shelby County	$326,500	0	0	0	100
Conway Farms	Lake Forest	$319,232	0	0	0	100
Tuxedo Park	Atlanta	$318,663	0	0	0	100
Skokie Country Club	Glencoe	$312,447	0	0	0	100

[Old Yeller]

The government pushes integration on us, when clearly the one culture prefers to be segregated in everything. Except the piece of the pie.

[Right Wing Assault]

It would make a lot more sense to use those “big deal billions of dollars” to make it attractive for businesses to hire these people so they could buy a house they could afford.

[Nachum]

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