HUD Proposes Plan to Racially, Economically Integrate Neighborhoods

US News and World Report ^ | August 9, 2013 | Elizabeth Flock

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

Move would allow Obama administration to institute policies that would better integrate communities

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new plan to change U.S. neighborhoods it says are racially imbalanced or are too tilted toward rich or poor, arguing the country's housing policies have not been effective at creating the kind of integrated communities the agency had hoped for.

The proposed federal rule, called "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing," is currently under a 60-day public comment period. Though details of how the policy would specifically work are unclear, the rule says HUD would provide states, local governments and others who receive agency money with data and a geospatial tool to look at "patterns of integration and segregation; racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty; access to education, employment, low-poverty, transportation, and environmental health."

States would then assess the best way to integrate communities deemed by HUD's data to not be integrated enough. A HUD official, who did not want to speak on record because of the public comment period, said the rule hopes to better match up HUD-assisted housing with the communities that have good hospitals, schools and other assets.

[Me1onCollie]

I’ll translate this for the layman and to the fires of hell with sensitivity:

What this bill boils down to is forcing you to live next door to the most unproductive, unlawful, unreformable elements of society and having absolutely no say about it.