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Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods
The Hill ^ | June 11, 2015 | Tim Devaney

Posted on 06/11/2015 5:12:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What makes a neighorhood “hardscrabble” is hardscrabble people.


21 posted on 06/11/2015 5:29:32 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The upcoming SCOTUS ruling on the use of “disparate impact” and statistics has been flying under the radar, overshadowed by King vs Burwell and Same-Sex Marriage.

But it’s just as important. If the government is prohibited from using statistical methodologies, as opposed to actual examples, to identify where racial discrimination exists and try to correct it, it makes it much harder to implement things like this.


22 posted on 06/11/2015 5:29:36 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Vigilanteman
You're right.

And this is about a resident who decided to throw a end of the year party totally disregarding the rules for membership at the private neighborhood pool (she got a DJ, food, drinks and sent invites online) that is restricted to the neighborhood residents who PAY for it's upkeep, lifeguards, etc. And the place was overrun. RACE had nothing to do with it (a mob showed up where they were not allowed). Period.

23 posted on 06/11/2015 5:30:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Deeetroit diversity

Baltimore diversity


24 posted on 06/11/2015 5:32:30 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Arm_Bears

Put one next to Babs’ house in Malibu.


25 posted on 06/11/2015 5:33:18 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Stalin would be proud.


26 posted on 06/11/2015 5:34:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Actually, it might be fun to see so many of those RINO northeastern wealthy areas have this shoved down their throats:

Greenwich
Darien
Chappaqua . . .
Potomac
Merion

Could be fun . . .


27 posted on 06/11/2015 5:34:58 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Paladin2

Yes, I’ve lived under two HOAs and agree with your assessment. Rampant cronyism, and an emphasis on nitpicking stupid things to death (how DARE you replace a dead shrub without going through the Review Board!) while strenuously avoiding elephants in the room.


28 posted on 06/11/2015 5:35:34 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Once again we focus on the symptoms of a dysfunctional society and conveniently ignore the root causes.

Of course, the root causes are not politically correct topics, so truthful discussion is not possible.


29 posted on 06/11/2015 5:35:40 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I knew this was coming. We used to be able to get away from the crime and hatred. He’s setting it up in our neighborhoods, paid for by us.


30 posted on 06/11/2015 5:38:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
George Lucas Planning Payback With Massive Affordable Housing Project On His Marin County Land

"NOVATO (CBS SF) — After George Lucas ran into a buzzsaw of opposition from his wealthy Marin County neighbors when he tried to expand his Skywalker Ranch studio, the filmmaker might be getting some payback with plans for one of the largest affordable housing projects in the Bay Area.

Lucas, the Star Wars creator is offering his own property in west Marin County off Lucas Valley Road near Novato for the project, with plans for a community of 224 homes right where neighbors said no to his studio expansion.

“He said ‘we’ve got enough millionaires here. What we need is some houses for regular working people,’” Lucas’ lawyer Gary Giacomini said.

Lucas says he will pay for the project himself...."

31 posted on 06/11/2015 5:38:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Arm_Bears

No, silly, this isn’t intended for the elites.


32 posted on 06/11/2015 5:39:10 AM PDT by x1stcav (Why does Eleanor Clift always look like her private parts are causing her acute pain?)
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To: barefoot_hiker

Isn’t this what used to be called “Block busting” back in the 1950s and 1960s?
Realtors would sell a home to a black couple in a white neighborhood, decreases property values, causes whites to flee and the realtors snap up the houses at very low prices for resale to the blacks.

I remember some nice neighborhoods that went from nice to slums almost overnight.


33 posted on 06/11/2015 5:41:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The events in McKinney make a stronger argument than could almost any lawyer for why the court should affirm the importance of racially and economically integrated residential areas

No, they show anyone with more than two working brain cells why some cultures (not races, cultures) are incompatible with others.

34 posted on 06/11/2015 5:42:56 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“It’s really about addressing long-standing practices that prevent people from living where they want to.”

Like charging the market price for a house.


35 posted on 06/11/2015 5:44:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Arm_Bears
As always, the truth can be found three paragraphs from the end.

It could also tilt the balance of political power as more minorities are funneled into Republican-leaning neighborhoods


36 posted on 06/11/2015 5:45:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It’s a tough sell for some conservatives.

No it's not.

37 posted on 06/11/2015 5:46:13 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Obama has practiced Quartering criminal illegals
with incurable diseases, already.

Now he will target his enemy: Americans.


38 posted on 06/11/2015 5:46:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
So Obama has moved on from spreading the wealth to spreading the crime. What's next? When you Secton 8 the upscale neighborhood, the gimmedats will scream they don't have Audis and BMWs. Will we then start a program to subsidize their purchase of luxury cars? How about boats? It isn't fair that Marco Rubio has an $80,000 boat when people across town don't have one.....where does it end?
39 posted on 06/11/2015 5:48:01 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: rarestia

“Wonder how long it’ll be before Obama starts ordering single family homeowners to give up their spare bedrooms for “poor families?”

Likely the administration will simply issue and executive order allowing HUD to target specific “affluent” neighborhoods and then use federal funds to buy houses in those neighborhoods, as they come on the market. The purchased houses can then be sold or rented at a reduced price to people who could not normally afford them. Likely the beneficiaries of this program will be selected with the help of community organizers and activists to ensure the new communities are blessed with new neighbors who will bring the provide the complete urban experience.


40 posted on 06/11/2015 5:53:51 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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