Posted on 06/17/2015 10:49:02 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
An African-American millionaire can buy a home in any expensive suburb. Color is no longer a barrier. Despite this progress, President Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development is accusing expensive towns of racism, simply because most minorities can't afford to live there.
Westchester County, N.Y., has struggled since 2009 under a plan by a federal monitor to compel the county to comply with HUD's demands for multiunit affordable housing in expensive areas. Hillary Clinton claims to be a warrior against inequality.
But her adopted hometown of Chappaqua, an upscale Westchester village that one resident describes as "a little piece of heaven," is battling HUD's demands. The legal war in Hillary's backyard is a preview.
The Obama administration is pulling out all the stops to launch a legal and regulatory assault on suburbs nationwide. HUD's soon-to-be-released regulation, in the works since 2013, will compel affluent suburbs to build more high-density, low-income housing, plus, of course, sewers, water lines, bus routes and other changes needed to support it.
All in the name of housing "fairness."
Obama's social engineers will eliminate local zoning, such as one-acre minimum lots, to achieve what the HUD rule calls "inclusive communities." Property values be damned.
If you've worked hard to afford a home in an affluent neighborhood of single-family houses, you have a lot to lose under this HUD plan.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
The federal government (FHA and EPA) and local governments (zoning and building codes) in league with socialist utopians (Garden City Movement) and big real estate developers created the suburbs. Now all those same forces are joining hands to reverse engineer the city. What could go wrong?
1.) Beverly Hills
2.) Martha’s Vineyard
3.) Kennedy Compound
4.) Georgetown
and so on and so on and so on.
Well the Muslim Brotherhood has to live somewhere. </sarc>
Ethnic Cleansing. His favorite Fundamental Change.
The Progressives’ programs and policies have destroyed places like Baltimore, Detroit and every other major metropolitan center. Now they want to move their most loyal voters out into the suburbs where they can prey on their new neighbors.
And middleclass taxpayers get to pick up the tab. It’s just a continuation of Obamanomics.
There is no right to live wherever one wants.
Never has been.
I’d like to live in certain places I cannot afford.
I don’t sit there and say the government should give me housing there, or in any way do anything to force others to let me live there.
The left covets. Liberals COVET. Socialists COVET. The urban black community COVETS. Everything about them is coveting their neighbors goods.
Where’s my free sh1t == coveting.
They would do well to stop doing it and work on increasing their own goods, through working for it and earning it.
I’m sorry, I just don’t see “Department of Housing and Urban Development” in my version of the constitution.
Maybe I have a previous release.
Can someone send me the latest rev with “Department of Housing and Urban Development” listed in it?
I’m not sympathetic. These communities request and take Federal money for all kinds of things. Now they get told what to do by the Federal government. Too bad, so sad.
Hillary is a NIMBY, and John Kerry was a NIMBY. In fact here in California, the SoCalled “tolerant” liberals are the leaders if the NIMBY’s. forcing ‘projects into the middle class neighborhoods because “those little people” deserve other “little people”.
Jane Long, like the middle school???
There was a good piece in the WSJ this morning about this very thing. I’m sure Obama will be living so far away from all this that it will never touch him, of course. The only blacks he has around him are, strangely enough, wealthy black entrepreneurs like Oprah (although Michelle obviously hates her) - even though black entrepreneurship is something he’d like to crush.
For a socialist, the political world is all, and that’s how you make your money. It’s how Hillary and Bill (now casting themselves as populists with a class-warfare message) and Obama and virtually everyone around him made their money, and in his mind, government is and should be the source of all things, including his personal wealth.
IIRC, three of the Ten Commandments deal with this issue, as in, "Thou Shalt NOT..."
Obama the Nwo puppet. Like the Bushes before him. When the.minorities with their free govt houses, start moving in. Move out, it will devalue their free homes. Prpblem solved.
I moved from my last house because illegal aliens moved in, 19 of them, two families and a bunch of men. They filled their trucks with trash piled high after digging through people’s trash cans early in the morning, then they would dismantle everything all day long. They would strip the insulation off of wire.
Then the city started building section 8 apartments. It wasn’t zoned for apartments, but the city made exceptions if the developer dedicated a portion of the units to the poor.
I posted a list of a bunch of California laws this morning here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3301087/posts?page=18
All the laws have wording in them such as “disadvantaged communities”, “women-owned”, “disadvantaged business”, “minority”, and “affordable housing”. Every description is used except “evil white capitalistic manpig”.
The government passed a Cap and Trade law, AB 32, to tax manufacturing and energy producers. The energy producers just raise their rates and the manufacturers move out of state.
The voters voted for a high-speed rail. It was supposed to be free and use existing land along existing rail and freeway. No private investors were interested and they couldn’t sell any bonds, so three judges gave them the go-ahead anyway.
It is going to cost somewhere around $100 billion, they are confiscating land, nobody wants it in their neighborhood, it is going to have two twenty foot walls dividing communities and farm land, and they no longer expect that the riders will cover operating costs.
The Cap and Trade law, AB 32, received one billion dollars from manufacturers in the last quarterly auction. 35 percent of that money will go to the train. The train authority mapped out disadvantaged communities
SB 535 Disadvantaged Communities (Map)
http://oehha.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=dae2fb1e42674c12a04a2b302a080598
Click on the map, you can zoom and it gives you the percentage of Hispanics.
They started building the train in Madera, it’s in the middle of nowhere, but as the state cuts off water to the farms, the migrants will have to have somewhere to live and so we will build them some high-density housing around the train station and every train station. Some of that money will be for light rail and bus feeder lines to the stations, they get high-density housing as well for one half mile on either side.
The trains and busses are mostly at surface level, this is designed to increase traffic, there will be no right turns on red, men in tights riding bikes and pedestrians interfering with traffic. People will want to move into these high-density apartments.
In a study done in 2008, Driving and the Built Environment,
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12747&page=R9
they found that Hispanics like to live in clusters and will move into these apartments as do young people.
They lessened the required parking in shopping centers and apartments to discourage cars. They have turned some street lanes into bike and walking paths.
In the same study, they came to the conclusion that doing all this will lower CO2 by less than one percent to 11 percent. They don’t know. Last week, Obama said that we can lessen CO2 by over 11 percent. He knows.
The lunatics (the Left) is running the show. Isn’t it great to watch the mentally unbalanced destroy this society. Just great.
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