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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But where would you go? Serious question.
Maybe, Poland or somewhere in Central Europe, that still appreciates Western Civilization.
It is the destruction of a Natural Right-—Free Association.
We are being herded like cattle....it is unconstitutional. AND we use our OWN money (taxes) to FORCE association with virtueless people.
It is intentional to collapse civil communities. Without Virtue, there is no Freedom and the “city’s” associations die (give people power in politics).
BTW, this whole “system” of bureaucracies is unconstitutional-—we are in a Marxist/socialist “system”-—right now. It needs to be dismantled now. We are being herded and controlled (unconstitutional) and they steal our money to force us into associations which we abhor to destroy fundamental freedoms.
I’m in Upper St Clair township (next door to Mt Lebanon). Same demographics. The country club Republicans here squealed when the township approved construction of a Whole Foods in their backyards.
Affordable Housing around these parts? Ain’t gonna happen.
They can start in the Hamptons. Until they start handing out section 8 vouchers amongst the rich and famous, I don’t want to hear about it.
That Whole Foods flap was a really smelly deal. The complaints to USC zoning were being filed by a resident who, it turns out, is employed by the law firm that represents Giant Eagle.
Giant Eagle’s nearby Market District store stands to be the biggest loser when Whole Foods opens up.
If your township is run by Republicans it will be all the more in Obama’s crosshairs (see my gerrymandering post above)
I wonder if there enough “blacks” to go around. We want “our” black in our neighborhood. Say...isn’t that racist?
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/07/how-a-seattle-plan-to-end-single-family-zoning-could-change-affordable-housing/398420/?utm_source=SFFB
How a Seattle Plan to End Single-Family Zoning Could Change Affordable Housing
Some of the proposed tools are untested, some are best practices. Together, they would set the city on the progressive edge.
• Kriston Capps
• @kristoncapps
• Jul 13, 2015
• The 28-member committee—planners, business owners, architects, advocates, and other people in housing, right down to the tenants—even fingers how race and class discrimination have guided the history of single-family zoning. This is the purpose of single-family housing: to keep poor people and people of color out of white, wealthy neighborhoods by erecting high barriers to entry. The Seattle committee recommends that the city take those barriers down by replacing “single-family zones” with “low-density residential zones” and upzoning practically everywhere else.
• That is a solution that is so clear and sensible that it’s dangerous.
• The formal proposal released by Mayor Murray today is lighter on theory and details, but it gives a broader account of the mayor’s plans for affordable housing. Seattle can build or preserve 50,000 new units of housing over the next decade, with almost half (20,000 units) designated affordable.
• That’s a reasonable goal. But it’s clear from the mayor’s proposal that he isn’t merely looking to expand affordable housing. Mayor Murray and his City Council allies want to build fairly. Seattle could get housing that is fundamentally just, and that’s something we haven’t seen in any city anywhere.
• Use property taxes to promote affordable housing
• Mayor Murray proposes to double Seattle’s housing levy—to $290 million—in order to build affordable housing. He also proposes a 0.25 percent tax on real-estate transfers in the hopes of capturing some of the value from rising land prices and redirecting it toward affordable housing. The mayor also calls for an expansion of the multifamily property tax exemption.
• Reform parking and preservation requirements
• Historic review and design review are important tools for protecting the culture and texture of a city, but yeesh, these tools can be a NIMBY’s deadliest weapon. Seattle’s already done the hard work of eliminating parking minimums from its urban centers and urban villages, so the mayor’s goal is to remove parking requirements beyond these areas.
This stuff is already baked in the cake in our town’s planning process. They’ve alluded to the grant money, and to being aligned (already) with federal regulations that haven’t been released.
The presentation is gauzy and dreamlike, but questions are treated with hostility. The “process” looks like Delphi. The consultant is from Ithaca. What could go wrong?
Have you seen the construction site lately? Unholy mess! Thankfully, live along the backside of Gilfillan so it isn’t near my property, but all those expensive homes in FieldGate, backing up to it?
The township liars had the balls to say it was going to increase those property values. Yep, noise at all hours, traffic, etc. I don’t blame anyone, or whoever they are connected with, for trying to fight it
My little village is in trouble. 1600 White souls and not a single negro.
Whatever happened to our Constitutional right of free association?
I can’t wait till they start putting up Section 8 housing in the upper middle-class gated community where I live.
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When they do, you’ll be surveyed to see if you like it. You’d better like it too!
It is a mess, and I think going south on 19 is going to turn into a huge headache too once it’s open.
I will admit I once had a boss that I hated so much, I fantasized about buying the five houses closest to his and turning them all into Section 8.
If you are POTUS you should be above such things.
Interesting b/c historically, wealthy towns have also contained neighborhoods where the zoning allowed smaller lots, smaller houses, apartments and allowed small businesses. This is where the employees who maintained the large homes and estates lived. The real estate boom inflated these home values to the point that the service employees could no longer afford them, and they now need to travel in from a distance. So I doubt that the Crips, Bloods and Black Disciples will be taking over the low income housing in the Hamptons and Chappaqua. It will mostly be people who have jobs (like the IT people who are tasked with erasing Hillary's hard drives) but earn much less than the rich n' famous people who employ them.
The "amenities" available in low income housing in high income areas aren't going to reflect the "desires" of typical problem residents of the hood. It will mostly be low income people who want to work, and they are very different from low income people who do not want to work.
Like every other half-baked social engineering idea of the last 50 years, this one is pretty much guaranteed to backfire.
So gov’t is going to take my money, ruin my property value and provide for someone who couldn’t afford to live next door to me to do so?
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By George, I believe you’ve got it!
(And you’d better like it too.)
RE: Whatever happened to our Constitutional right of free association?
That went out the window when Christian businessmen were fined and threatened with jail time and their livelihood ruined for refusing to service same-sex weddings and the mainstream press and Republicans YAWNED.
This is simply and extended application of that.
It’s going to get much worse on 19.
They are, at some point, going to make a right turn only lane on Ft Couch road at the intersection.
Also, across the street. CVS has grand plans for a new location at the Campbell Center (current location of Boston Market & other small shops)
Cannot wait to get out of here!
Are they going to monitor poor black neighborhoods and force whites to move there?
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Don’t all Whites long to live in a nice 3 room house on The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Blvd.?
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