Posted on 06/27/2015 8:52:08 AM PDT by C19fan
A while back we discussed a proposed plan which Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was preparing to roll out. The goal was apparently to use public funds to impose a bit more “diversity” on neighborhoods by improving lower income neighborhood properties while mandating more low cost, public housing in wealthier areas. The response around here was, shall we say, less than enthusiastic, but hey… this is just one small corner of the interwebs, right? Perhaps the rest of the nation sees this as a wonderful opportunity and an idea whose time has come round at last.
Let’s check in with Rasmussen and see where the rest of our fellow citizens are coming down.
With the Department of Housing and Urban Development ready to release new regulations meant to diversify wealthy neighborhoods, American voters overwhelmingly say that it is not the government’s job to try to bring those of different income levels to live together.
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You are technically correct, DSD. It was people who could “afford” to move into the suburbs and most of those people just happened to be white.
The democrats have become hard left socialists. They keep pushing their agenda on others. It’s never enough. Each little victory of theirs is followed by greater and more outrageous demands. Keep pushing Lefties, you just might get what you want - a revolution. Except it won’t be the one the Left is dreaming of. It’ll be a tremendous blow-back that will eviscerate the ferderal government’s power.
In the past American citizens were spoiled by freedom
This is a “fundamental issue” people don’t give a damn about.
Choose freely, to live where you want to live. It is important to those who work for a living.
If I recall correctly, a majority of Americans weren’t big on the gay marriage thing either. But that got shoved down their throats anyway. So let’s celebrate our new poor gay neighbors!
We the working, tax paying public will be paying to move the grifters into our neighborhoods.
Another case of bitter clingers clinging to their nice suburban neighborhoods ill-gotten through white privilege and winning life’s lottery. All democrats should warmly embrace their new Section 8 neighbors with Welcome Wagon baskets.
Who cares? It will be rammed down their throats.
Just like 0bamacare, Sotomeyor, TPA, "gay marriage," budget, immigration, debt ceiling, etc..
Would be nice to have an opposition party.
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They’re already doing it on NY’s upper east side.
Private gated communities will be banned because of “disparate impact” under this week’s SCOTS ruling in Texas Department of Housing v. Inclusive Communities Project. Under “disparate impact,” “plaintiff may establish liability, without proof of intentional discrimination, if an identified business practice has a disproportionate effect on certain groups of individuals and if the practice is not grounded in sound business considerations.”
“Free association” is dead. You WILL enjoy your new Section 8 neighbors. Embrace the cultural mosaic!
The nation is SO screwed.
My liberal daughter (in her late 20s) makes that point — the failure of all Democrat urban strongholds was caused by whites moving away. You cannot be too careful in selecting the right college for your kids.
Glad your PD captured them. We have the same thing in our nice community — “friends” from Oakland and East San Jose come here for their trades.
I suspect they go through the rapidly revolving door at the courthouse and get right back to “work.”
One thing such a policy would do is drive a stake through the heart of the already-faltering housing market; who would buy a home for more than $10K if a zoo (with no cages) can be re-located next door/down the street? They try to frame it in terms of race, but I don’t want to live around Section 8 whites either.
People of means, increasingly childless anyway, will simply rent and flee when the gibsmedats are turned loose (or their jobs move).
“declare zoning laws racist”
Yep...there is already discussion this week that requirements for minimum lot sizes are racist under “disparate impact.”
Living next to a rental property that isn’t owner-occupied can be a nightmare; when people have no stake in something, they couldn’t care less about it. The same problems in high-rise tenements can arise in a 3-family rental unit (garbage, graffiti, lack of maintenance, etc.).
A majority of the very wealthy zip codes in the country are liberal elite.
By all means, tear down the mansion on either side of Michael Moore, the Clintons, and Barbra Streisand to make way for 4 story low risers - places than can house a few hundred black gang bangers and illegals. Rather than ‘white’ rubbing off - ‘liberal elite white’ will rub off and all our problems will be solved.
We need to get behind this one...
Correction. Obama will diversify YOUR neighborhood. Don’t expect any Pruitt Igoe style housing on Martha’s Vineyard anytime soon. This HUD program, along with “refugee” relocation is going to white republican towns and cities. All this is a double play for Obama. He gets to stick it to white republicans, which he hates, AND ensures a democrat majority for generations. Obama cares nothing about destroying the nation as long as he wins...AND more importantly, democrats are in control.
The other advantage is white liberal elites might ‘crack the code’ of the race problem and seriously ‘show us the way’... Many of us feel white liberal elites choose to live in upscale neighborhoods to avoid crime. And some suspect white liberal elites might even be racist...saying one thing but living the opposite.
Michael Moore's neighborhood is a great place to start because he's so open minded. Same with the Clintons... this really is a good plan. It should be applied to all neighborhoods with homes valued at over a million each...
and we want to see Section 8 housing in Georgetown and Mclean, too. Oh and force those burbs to allow metro service extended into their neighborhoods to allow “access”
and how about Section 8 in Chappaqua and the Hamptons too- so Hillary can get to know her fellow citizens better
I can’t figure out why Michael Moose and the rest of the wealthy don’t just buy houses in their neighborhoods and make them section 8 rentals?
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