Posted on 08/19/2020 5:29:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Trump administration recently rescinded the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, adopted in the early months of the Obama administration.
The rule was an add-on to the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The act was about preventing discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of housing.
However, like so much of the distortions that occurred after the civil rights era of the 1960s, this rule is not about preventing discrimination but about using civil rights language to advance a brazen left-wing political agenda.
In the case of the AFFH rule, there are so many different stated objectives it's not even clear which is the main one.
The AFFH rule is war on the lifestyle of the single-family home and American suburban family life.
What is wrong with life in the suburbs for any freedom-loving American? Nothing.
But for those with political power, and a left-wing agenda, everything is wrong.
One alleged problem is what they call sprawl. Why should one family take up so much valuable land?
And then there's the environment. One family in the suburbs might own two vehicles, disproportionately spewing carbon during their daily commutes into the city.
And, it is just not fair that a family is living a nice life in the suburbs while fellow citizens with fewer resources are crowded on top of one another in low-income housing in the cities.
The AFFH rule pretends to take care of all of this by invading the suburban space; limiting single-family home zoning; mandating dense, low-income housing; and financing it all with tax revenue from resident single-family home dwellers
It was the right move by the Trump administration to eliminate this inappropriate assault on the most basic American freedom to choose where and how one wants to live.
Now Biden says that, as president, he will restore this rule and restore it with even greater force.
Biden's new version restores all the onerous provisions and adds additional teeth by denying federal funds for roads as penalty for noncompliance.
We can only marvel that there are those who think Washington should get involved in local zoning decisions, and that local demographics is the business of Washington.
It speaks all we need to know about the left-wing grab for power that the left gives precedence to its vision of what America should look like over our most basic values of freedom. And that it actually believes that bureaucrats sitting in Washington should decide what is best for housing in communities thousands of miles away.
We can also only marvel that after all these years of failed government anti-poverty programs, where untold trillions were spent with no benefit to anyone other than bureaucrats making a living off them, people still claim these kinds of programs are a good idea.
Government housing programs for the poor have been utter failures, creating only government-enabled ghettos.
If we want to help those with inadequate resources cover the cost of decent housing, give them an unconditional voucher to use for private housing wherever they choose.
We are in unusual circumstances that have warranted more government activism.
In a recent Fox News poll, the percentage who said government should "lend me a hand" was 57%, up from 34% last year.
Those on the left want to exploit this and transform temporary government intervention into a permanent, institutional expansion of government.
It would be a grave and fatal mistake for our nation to allow this to happen.
When we hear those in Washington talking about government policy to make things more fair, everyone should go on alert. We see people fleeing people our cities today as a result of these very same kinds of government-knows-best policies.
If we care about keeping America more equitable and helping the unfortunate, we should work to keep America free, growing and prosperous.
Spreading the cancer where all are infected is thier goal. Where are all miserable and dependent under an oppressive communist style political system and where the elitists and thier families rule and hand out skittles
The left will have a tough time with this as cities become gutted by the COVID-realization by companies that they don’t need to warehouse employees in office buildings any longer.
Big cities are heading for some pain — and with leftist politicians in charge of them, it’s a double-whammy...
The Left desires us all stacked and packed into cities where we all can be manipulated and controlled
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
If Biden is elected, a black plague will descend on the cities and they will become totally dysfunctional.
The message is clear from all the rioting, looting and pillaging
It is about packing democrats into red counties.
The Dems just want the poor criminals out of their gentrified cities so they (the Dems) can live in luxurious peace...
Doubling the edge dimension of the Borg city will enlarge it’s volume by a factor of 8.
Only TWO??
We have two Jeeps that run; one that needs repair, 3 one ton Chevy vans and 4.5 Opel GTs in the barn!
(Don't get me started on lawn tractors, mowers, blowers, chainsaws, and TOYS!)
“In a recent Fox News poll, the percentage who said government should “lend me a hand” was 57%, up from 34% last year.”
This may be an anomaly, since it was government that recently forced people out of their jobs. Maybe a lot of people feel that the very same government should help fix the mess it created.
First of all - I like your name.
I’ve been working from home since March which is out of the county where my office is located. Because of that, I just downloaded the tax rebate form from the local government to recover the occupational taxes they collected on me. Since the local politicians there are coddling the Defund the Police crowd, I’m taking pleasure in Defunding their Taxbase!
...I couldn't understand why the left would allow their cities to be completely destroyed until I realized that the result was a massive migration of radical progressives into the middle class suburbs and peace-loving red states....
This is phase III of a grand plan to destroy the Right, brought into play because phases I & II were not fully effective. We all know how this works once the Left moves into a community. Rights, individual freedoms, and all the things that make life enjoyable are quickly dismantled.
There's plenty of empty real estate in cities. Section 8 folks should stay there.
Where there is UNLIMITED SPACE in the Phoenix suburbs, I always thought the closeness of the new houses being built was to maximize the number of houses in each development. I just figured it was the greed of the development company. Seriously, the houses are so close together you could practically touch your neighbor if you extended your arms out an upstairs window and they did, too. Now I realize that perhaps the developers are just following Obama era ‘rules’. Making the suburbs more like the close-in living situation in the cities. Irritating.
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The Dems hate us Suburban people. We have an F 350 diesel, an Ford Expedition XL, a F150 and we just bought daughter a Mustang (she wanted on, so she got it). Have 3 antiques. A Road Runner, a 71 Mach 1 and a 65 Galaxies. Had others, but wife asked me to downsize, so had to sell 4.
Where's the other half of the . 5 GT?
Liberal refugees, don’t vote for what you fled.
We need to bring back the rule “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
If you have to move or immigrate because your home was that bad, it should be seen as IMMORAL to then support that political ideology in your new home. If you flee a liberal state, you don’t vote liberal anymore. If you left an oppressive Islamic regime, it is immoral to support Islamic rules here.
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