Posted on 07/18/2020 5:52:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump’s pledge to roll back an Obama-era regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs is drawing harsh criticism from fair housing advocates, who label it a blatant attempt to play racial politics and appeal to white voters in the final weeks before the election.
They also consider it a empty political stunt, since the regulation he’s talking about eliminating never truly got started on the ground in the first place.
The initiative, known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing or AFFH, is a provision of the Fair Housing Act that requires local governments and zoning boards to submit detailed plans on how they intend to address racial disparities in order to obtain funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The issue of changing the AFFH regulations isn’t even a particularly new Trump proposal. HUD in January publicly proposed a set of changes that would greatly reduce the obligations of jurisdictions to address racial segregation in housing in order to obtain funding. It’s widely expected that Trump’s housing proposal will essentially be a version of that.
But Yentel, of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, said the particular details and timing of the issue are irrelevant to Trump’s larger electoral goal.
“I’d estimate that the vast majority of people have no idea what he’s talking about,” she said. “They don’t need to. This is about instilling fear.”
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing or AFFH ..... translation .... we will force nice, safe, pretty small towns to take in massive amounts of Section 8 and refugees and RUIN them. All in the name of fairness. Or in the name of watering down Republican votes in those areas.
I wonder if the advocates are so keen on doing this in all the trendy, inner city and suburban enclaves filled with their liberal, hipster supporters. Doubt it.
It's their response that is empty then since it wouldn't have any effect.
I shutter every time I see THEM burning down their slums. I never see new housing being built where the old housing was burnt, leaving me to believe they’re coming to a neighbor near you!
There are no "racial disparities in the suburbs." People of any race that want to live there can and - in fact - do.
The mechanism is in place for what Trump is talking about. All it need now is someone sho will pull the trigger on it..
I’d say a goal of farming out the welfarians is to create urban playgrounds for white liberal hipsters; besides the security issue, they don’t want to pay the bills associated with the upkeep of the welfarians.
Here in NJ they are trying to disperse the permanent underclass to suburbs because the cities are broke; they want to pass their idle residents on to more viable hosts. They’re moving them from dumps with no Columbus statues to suburbs that still have statues of him.
“””There are no “racial disparities in the suburbs.” People of any race that want to live there can and - in fact - do. “””
I live in in of them fancy suburbs just on the edge of Minneapolistan. There is a house for sale across the street. I don’t remember seeing anything in the listing that says only honkies can buy the place. Maybe it is in secret code language or something and I missed it.
it was 0bama’s attempt to spread crime and violence from the cities to the suburbs.
“Yentel, of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition ...”
How diverse is her neighborhood?
In the name of communism.
I'm amazed people still do not understand how evil Obama is. He wasn't joking about fundamentally transforming America.
He's a Musloid, which means he's a lying lump of s**t - even on his best day.
Musloids are commanded by their religious texts to lie to us. All practicing Musloids are lying lumps of s**t.
Will section 8 housing be built in upper class suburban neighborhoods or just upper middle, middle, and lower middle class suburban neighborhoods, particularly those with Republican representation? You’ll never see section 8 housing in the middle of Bloomfield Hills or Birmingham or East Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This is so the wealthy can re-claim prim inner-city areas with high land values.
In California, they were pushed out into the desert cities of Lancaster and Palmdale effectively ruining those (once nice) cities. The fights at the high schools are vicious and legendary, like nothing else.
We had rental property out in both cities and managed to sell them just as the neighborhood started to go under, big time under...
Activist complaints, like flak, just means you’re over the target!!
Only liberals would object to eliminating a regulation that never took effect anyway. And then complain that eliminating it was a “political stunt.” Since it’s not being enforced, what was the point of enacting it except as a political stunt?
qaz123 wrote: “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing or AFFH ..... translation .... we will force nice, safe, pretty small towns to take in massive amounts of Section 8 and refugees and RUIN them. All in the name of fairness. Or in the name of watering down Republican votes in those areas.”
A liberal once told me that conservatives should support these kinds of actions. Dispersing Section 8 into the suburbs would actually decrease crime and reduce tax rates. His theory was that the middle-class neighbors would serve as mentors to the Section 8. Once the Section 8’s saw how having jobs paid off, they would embrace the middle class lifestyle, crime would decrease, and we could reduce taxes. He didn’t seem to think that the Section 8s would watch the middle class leave for work and then be free to break into their homes and steal their stuff.
Not just that. The new mountains of regulations and bureaucratic idiocy will keep builders far away. The only exceptions, of course, will be the construction companies providing big bribes to government officials.
It’s not hard to see what a viper pit this would instantly become.
On the topic of building *anything*, the smart money is on President Trump.
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