Posted on 06/13/2015 9:39:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
Heading into the last quarter of Obama's presidency we heard time and time again that these two years would be the most dangerous for the Republic. His disdain for working with Congress, contempt for the Constitution, and propensity to act unilaterally would only be magnified in the remaining days of his term—after all, he’d go big because he’s going home.
Now that he's made everything from health care to immigration precipitously worse, next up on the list is an experiment in social engineering.
The Onion The Hill reports:
The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”
A final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule due out this month is aimed at ending decades of deep-rooted segregation around the country.
The regulations would use grant money as an incentive for communities to build affordable housing in more affluent areas while also taking steps to upgrade poorer areas with better schools, parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.
“HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all,” a HUD spokeswoman said. “The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds.”
As you can imagine, the list of critics among conservatives is lengthy. Among them is Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who’s at the forefront of an effort in the House to block the regulations.
“American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government,” he said.
Critics of the rule say it would allow HUD to assert authority over local zoning laws. The agency could dictate what types of homes are built where and who can live in those homes, said Gosar, who believes local communities should make those decisions for themselves rather than relying on the federal government.
If enacted, the rule could depress property values as cheaper homes crop up in wealthy neighborhoods and raise taxes, Gosar warned.
It could also tilt the balance of political power as more minorities are funneled into Republican-leaning neighborhoods, he suggested.
But we were warned, right?
I think an apartment building, possibly section 8, is going up on the 8 wooded acres behind my house. We’re going to try to sell before it gets started.
When they talk about “wealthy” neighborhoods, they’re talking about the middle class. Never mind that all these middle class communities have the exact percentage of minorities as the population. And the minorities qualify for the mortgages because they work. This guy wants welfare people living in middle class neighborhoods.
I think the guy is trying to start a race war so he can declare martial law. He may get his chance. When section 8 housing starts popping up all over the place and welfare recipients move in it’ll be time to do something. I hope Abbott has the guts to lead a secession of Texas.
This is what was behind the downfall of the Hidden Valley subdivision, NE of Charlotte NC.
Look up “Hidden Valley Kings” to find out more. It’s not a nice story.
We drove through Baltimore in late September or early October of 1966 from Upstate New York to St, Augustine, Florida. The area looked already rundown then
Crawl back under your rock from which you crawled out from you miserable troll
remember, Rand Paul thinks there’s too many black men in prison. They’re going to remove felons from prison and move them into your currently safe neighborhood!
Yeah, Mr. pResident, right after you diversify the universities by requiring 40% of their staffs to be conservative professors.
Right now I live in a fairly pricey development and have 8 neighbors.
Three are black. They are professional and have good positions.
I suspect that somehow that won’t be good enough anointed one.
Give me lots of money so I can afford to live in a “wealthy” neighborhood, and I will go transracial and start an NAACP chapter in that whitebread hood. I will bring some diversity all up in that biatch.
I thought SF was a "sanctuary" city that welcomed the homeless.
I suspect that somehow that won’t be good enough anointed one.
I have friends and relatives who are black that live in upscale neighborhoods. A few live in wealthy neighborhoods.
Most all of them didn't vote for 0bama the second time.
5.56mm
unfortunately, they are taking their destructive voting habits with them and working to ruin their new locales, without even realizing it.
You’re an idiot. You’re the troll.
Why doesn’t this piece of sh*t just cut to the chase and begin exterminating whites, capitalist roaders and people who wear eyeglasses.
Man, you're dumb.
Seems his idea rings of “racism” to me. He’s basically saying we’ve got to build “cheap” housing so AA people can live near wealthier people. That is assuming that the AA population cannot afford better housing.
I’ve lived in an integrated neighborhood for 26 years. Golf course homes, upper middle class I’d say. There just wasn’t white flight in this neighborhood back in the 70’s, and the neighborhood remains integrated to this day with the buying and selling going both ways black selling to whites and other ethnicities, and vice versa.
We also have the lowest crime rate in the city, a very strong neighborhood association, crime watch patrols, and the neighborhood got together and paid for cameras to be installed in the area as a deterrence to crime.
So for Obama to insinuate that our community needs lower priced housing for more diversity, he’s basically saying the AA can’t do it on their own. I wonder how that makes my black neighbors feel. They came in on equal footing to a “wealthier” neighborhood, and they did it without government assistance or Obama forcing diversity.
Look in the mirror and tell me who is dumb, woman
True....until the immigrants self-deport
unless they can acquire enough skills to
stay and earn enough to supplement their
govmint provided housing.
Something like McKinney would never happen in a suburban community in NY or NJ, because the folks in question would never consider moving to a community where they know they will get the shoulder. Whether it's a good or bad thing depends on one perspective...
Funny thing is, NJ is statistically the least dependent of all 50 states on federal money. What NJ makes, the south and west take.
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