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Shockingly, Americans not big on government enforced neighborhood diversity
HotAir ^ | June 27, 2015 | Jazz Shaw

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cabrinigreen; diversity; fairhousingact; housing; hud
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Obama is giving the GOP a golden opportunity with this 80/20 issue yet except for some bloggers the GOP political class has been silent. This issue is a winner for the GOP including in the deepest blue areas like suburban NYC metro to Beverly Hills. This is a fundamental issue people care about. If they cannot take advantage of this then we should just literally create the Uniparty.
1 posted on 06/27/2015 8:52:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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Shockingly, Americans not big on government enforced neighborhood diversity

Imagine that?

2 posted on 06/27/2015 8:55:31 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: C19fan

Who cares? It will be rammed down their throats.


3 posted on 06/27/2015 8:56:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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Spike Lee’s Amazing Rant Against Gentrification: ‘We Been Here!’

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/spike-lee-amazing-rant-against-gentrification.html


4 posted on 06/27/2015 8:58:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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I will go along with this as long as the residents of Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and West Los Angeles California get their beloved minorities living right in their midst.


5 posted on 06/27/2015 8:58:17 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: ClearCase_guy

Some neighborhoods are more equal than others.


6 posted on 06/27/2015 8:58:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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Libs will hate it and STILL vote democrat!


7 posted on 06/27/2015 8:58:42 AM PDT by albie
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They tried that decades ago. People moved out and created suburbs.

Every time they try something like this, more private gated communities spring up.

But they never learn. No matter how big a failure, they come back and try again a few decades later.


8 posted on 06/27/2015 9:00:32 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Maybe we could see where SCOTUS stands on this?


9 posted on 06/27/2015 9:00:47 AM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There was a Supreme Court decision this week, overshadowed by marriage and Obamacare, on this subject. The decision of the court seems to give green lights to housing discrimination lawsuits and remedies based on “disparate impact”, even if the intention was not to discriminate. Stay tuned.

We’ve already seen some nice suburban areas go ghetto due to locating too many Section 8 residents in such areas.

Where will we all move to, if forced integration becomes a reality? Will those who can afford it go live on a farm somewhere, apart from the Section 8 residents???


10 posted on 06/27/2015 9:01:24 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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There was a Supreme Court case this week on this. Overshadowed by Obamacare and marriage. I want to see what that ruling states. News reports were that it gives green lights to lawsuits based on disparate impact, rather than intentional discrimination.


11 posted on 06/27/2015 9:02:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

We’re not big on Sodomite Marriage either, but who’s going to stop either?


12 posted on 06/27/2015 9:02:56 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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The less publicized Supreme Court Ruling:

Supreme Court vs. Neighborhood Segregation

In a surprising move on Thursday, the United States’ highest court ruled that policies even inadvertently relegating minorities to poor areas violate the Fair Housing Act.

In writing the majority opinion, Justice Kennedy acknowledged that the disparate-impact standard has worked to combat systemic discrimination. “Much progress remains to be made in our Nation’s continuing struggle against racial isolation,” Kennedy wrote. “In striving to achieve our ‘historic commitment to creating an integrated society,’ we must remain wary of policies that reduce homeowners to nothing more than their race. But since the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 and against the backdrop of disparate-impact liability in nearly every jurisdiction, many cities have become more diverse. The FHA must play an important part in avoiding the Kerner Commission’s grim prophecy that ‘our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate but equal.’”

13 posted on 06/27/2015 9:03:06 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Hillary: Ethically Sleazy & Politically Stupid)
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Yup. Eventually Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer and Kennedy will imperiously point their crooked fingers and say You Must Be Punished for your success! A Revenge class will be imposed on you, and they will persecute you mercilessly in your own neighborhood!

Private Property will be the ultimate prize of this Communist Court.

That was always the goal of the Looters.


14 posted on 06/27/2015 9:03:42 AM PDT by Regulator
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yep, I remember the “white flight” talk years ago. Blacks complained that whites moved away, and the people left behind were mostly minorities. The talk was that integration never happened because whites moved away.

There was never talk about how crime and gang activity and other elements of the black community drove away blacks too, who could afford to live elsewhere.


15 posted on 06/27/2015 9:04:25 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Diversity is another word for slavery.

One is not free if one has to be ‘diverse’


16 posted on 06/27/2015 9:06:50 AM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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up next, they'll declare zoning laws racist
17 posted on 06/27/2015 9:09:20 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Let’s just mix a little excrement into this fine stew, nobody will notice.


18 posted on 06/27/2015 9:13:07 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (3 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day! The BIG seven ohhhh.)
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Several years ago, Chicago closed their crime ridden housing projects and moved the residents to a number of small towns downstate. A town that I once lived in was the recipient of many of these residents. The crime rate has skyrocketed. I noticed that our former house was up for sale, with the stipulation that only a live in owner would be considered. I asked a friend, still living there, why they would say that. She told me that people were buying houses in the areas that were still pretty nice and then renting them out to Section 8 ‘residents’. The Left pushes and pushes and pushes. Why aren't they called out for the BULLIES that they are?? Probably because they have so many Leftist judges that back up the bullying, I guess. Reid did a huge favor for the Leftists, much to the detriment of our country, when he rammed through the nuclear option. And nary a complaint from their sycophants in Big Media. Now loads of judicial activists to implement the Leftist agenda.
19 posted on 06/27/2015 9:14:19 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Concur. My neighborhood is diverse in race, ethnicity, and work sectors. What it is not diverse in is economic level. Despite being that diverse we had a group of punks prowling cars the other night that all come from the Section 8 housing a couple miles down the road. The local PD did a good job of rounding a couple of them up, one of which was armed with a pistol (underage). They will get the others based upon examination of their cell phone traffic.

The last thing anybody in this neighborhood wants is those section 8 criminals living amongst us. We all squeak by trying to pay for houses while the government throws money down a bottomless hole of welfare.

20 posted on 06/27/2015 9:17:12 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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