Posted on 07/20/2015 7:18:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The president who pledged to transform America has picked his next target in the country’s makeover: the suburbs.
Obama the Utopian hopes to use both the federal Treasury and the federal club to coax Americans into neighborhoods planned by bureaucrats to perfectly reflect the nation’s diversity.
The Obama administration’s long-awaited new housing regulations came out Wednesday giving the federal government more tools to make sure neighborhoods around the nation aren’t developed and populated in racially segregated manners.
The rules, issued under the Department of Housing and Urban Development, are supposed to put a stop to “segregated living patterns” and “racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty,” HUD said, the Hill reported.
How it works is HUD will give local communities information on how to prevent and address perceived segregated housing areas, and offer grant money to address the situation. The grant money could then be used to help diversity the neighborhoods and “expand equal access to opportunity for all Americans,” HUD said, the Hill reported.
HUD Secretary Julian Castro put it this way: “Unfortunately, too many Americans find their dreams limited by where they come from, and a ZIP code should never determine a child’s future. This important step will give local leaders the tools they need to provide all Americans with access to safe, affordable housing in communities that are rich with opportunity.”
Critics, however, call the carrot-stick trade-off of government regulations for grant dollars a prime example of federal overreach.
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I suspect the new neighborhoods,at some point in time will drop to the lowest common denominator. Good neighbors will not put up with bad neighbors forever. The bad ones will move out,leaving disaster in their wake,or the good ones will move out,& it will be a disaster anyway. It is not a government’s place to be messing with this kind of thing & we are all better off if they stay out of it & stick to punishing just the bad in our society instead of punishing everyone.
He just wants to be able to give more money to his cronies.
Funny thing is ...most of the people that don’t like that I married a white woman are liberals.
The Northeastern libs are coming to the Republican party. They love their segregation and hate apartment buildings.
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