Posted on 03/21/2006 3:38:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Lawyers for Baltimore public housing residents are asking a federal judge to order the creation of 3,000 new low-income housing units and an additional 3,750 housing vouchers, mostly in well-off suburban neighborhoods with good schools and access to jobs.
The request comes 14 months after the judge found that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development violated fair housing laws by failing to take a regional approach to the desegregation of city public housing.
It asks the federal agency to provide tenants with 675 new "housing opportunities a year over the next decade to reduce the effects of decades of discriminatory actions."
Whether the judge accepts the proposal or crafts his own solution to the discrimination he has found, the case highlights one of the Baltimore region's most vexing and contentious issues - how to dilute the concentration of poverty in the city.
The proposed order is drawing opposition and skepticism from Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and some suburban leaders, and it is being vigorously contested by lawyers for HUD, who say it is "entirely uncalled for" and "simply not practical."
............"Baltimore's African-American public housing residents have virtually no opportunity to live in white, suburban neighborhoods with better opportunities for themselves and their children for education, employment, safety and recreation," they wrote. "Only through such a remedy can African-American public housing residents in Baltimore overcome the harms suffered through decades of government-sanctioned discrimination."
But lawyers for HUD counter that the "prospect of implementing those recommendations and having them work is, at best, dubious."
"Testimony from HUD program officials will demonstrate how difficult, disruptive and counter-productive the sort of remedy that plaintiffs will likely seek would be," they wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Sure makes me want to move to Md. buy a house, open a business and pay for this kind of crap.
As ususal, good post Cincinatus' wife.
Why do you think Moslems have multple wives? It's a way to milk the "system". Multiple wives (with only one being "legally" recognized) means multiple AFDC checks, multiple Social Security checks and health care paid by Medicaid. Of course, the Gubmint looks the other way, since everybody knows it's a "Religion of Peace". We're paying them to breed like rabbits.
Disgusting.
Read Debbie Schussel for more on this type of activity in Detroit.
O'malley knows his meal ticket is on both sides of the track,he will lose so many of the(not in my backyard) liberals in the surrounding communities, even with 90% of the black votes, will it not help him win the state.
Steele can campaign on this issue. If he gets on the right side of this, it will help him a lot in the suburbs.
"Baltimore's African-American public housing residents have virtually no opportunity to live in white, suburban neighborhoods with better opportunities for themselves and their children for education, employment, safety and recreation,"
Yes they do have the opportunity, it's called a pre-approval from a mortgage lender and purchase agreement for a home.
I don't ask someones race when I pre-approve them(until the end when we answer the govt mandated ?'s); they can call me and we will start the process.
I can do lending in Baltimore.
That's the story in my neighborhood. We are pretty much a cross section now, some of everything. In talking about this with one Black neighbor, the saying emerged, "There is ONE color in this country: GREEN."
If someone earns enough "Green", they can live anywhere they want. He works hard, and brought up three really good kids. He moved out from the city decades ago, and refers to his former neighbors, who still huddle there and collect, as (The Collective Noun We Cannot Use.).
5.56mm
I can't afford to move into the DC suburb of Mitchellville, a mostly black enclave of much nicer homes than I have now. Should I sue?
Yes, and $50 bills come out of the faucets from time to time.
The left can't stand the fact that many sensible people have fled the inner cities to live in peace with their neighbors without the fear of being raped, robbed or killed and their children harassed because of their skin color.
The left wants to move the people who rape rob and kill into the peaceful neighborhoods.
The left wants everyone to live at the same miserable level - if you have, they want to take from you, if you don't have, they give you what they took from the haves.
ME! ME! ME!
I want to be a poverty pimp! I want the cash for being stooopid enough to be poor in a country that gives you every opportunity to be rich!
Of course when the market value drops in those neighborhoods, so will the tax revenues to the city.
That's communism and it's failed everywhere it's been tried. Under communism, self-enrichment is a crime - accept of course if you're the one keeping the masses in line.
I imagine someone has their eye on the inner city property ripe for redevelopment, at the right government subsidized price of course.
If only I could live next door to someone rich and white, all my pathologies would go away.
Eventually they will have to accept that the problems in the Black community come from the Black community. No matter where you put them the same problems will arise.
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