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Trump May End Obama Housing Rule, Says It Devastates Suburban Areas
The Epoch Times ^ | July 4, 2020 | Allen Zhong

Posted on 07/04/2020 4:10:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he may end one Obama-era housing rule, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH).

“At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas. Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE,” he wrote on a Twitter post. “Not fair to homeowners, I may END!”

At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas. Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE. Not fair to homeowners, I may END!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

The Obama administration published the AFFH rule in July 2015 to impose several legal obligations on local governments, including reviewing fair housing based on maps and tools provided by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and submitting plans—known as consolidated plans or ConPlan—every five years.

Trump’s announcement came as the HUD stopped aggressively implementing the AFFH rule.

HUD suspended the obligation of local governments to file consolidated plans under the regulation in January 2018 and withdrew a computer assessment tool required to be used in preparing those plans in May 2018.

In the latest rule (pdf) published on Jan. 7, 2020, HUD changed the definition of AFFH shifting the emphasis from “address[ing] significant disparities in housing” to “advancing fair housing choice within the program participant’s control or influence.”

HUD also gave more flexibility to local governments to identify common barriers to fair housing choice.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: affh; hud; suburbs
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Get rid of HUD.


41 posted on 07/04/2020 5:12:49 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m Confused?

Isn’t Fair Housing wholly dependent on what you can Afford?? Lots of money, nice neighborhood, no money the slums. Shouldn’t the object be to Earn More Money??


42 posted on 07/04/2020 5:15:45 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: bkopto

I reported you. This nonsense doesn’t help.


43 posted on 07/04/2020 5:16:10 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: kaehurowing

Yes it is


44 posted on 07/04/2020 5:19:57 PM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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To: lasereye

There is a way to beat the system, and the irony is that the lefties in these parts have figured out how to do it while virtue signaling at the same time.

They make lots of noises about “saving the planet” by banning public water and sewer. That stops all multifamily development cold beyond the inner suburbs—and of course “saves the Earth”.

That also justifies large single family lot requirements, which makes additional development very difficult if not impossible.

So—if you want to preserve your housing values for generations to come, you know what to do....1....2.....3.....”Save the planet!” ;-)


45 posted on 07/04/2020 5:28:24 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: DLfromthedesert
This should have been done on Day 1.

As you may, or may not, recall, within 20 minutes of President Trump swearing in the impeachment of President Trump was announced by one of the newspapers of record.

A lot of people have forgotten that, you may be among them.

That may have taken a few minutes of his next 3 years.

46 posted on 07/04/2020 5:40:37 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: frank ballenger

My neighbors across the street are an inter-racial couple who moved up here from the suburbs south of Atlanta when they had children. They said they did it for “better schools,” but the public schools here aren’t really better than any others in Georgia, except for a less dangerous demographic mix. And they’re liberals who put up Obama and Stacy Abrams signs.


47 posted on 07/04/2020 5:41:11 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one wo)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So what does this rule do? The article was vague.


48 posted on 07/04/2020 5:43:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: DLfromthedesert

Yeah there was definately a failure in transition as to what should have been done day 1-30


49 posted on 07/04/2020 6:14:37 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: cdcdawg

Schools are no better than the Raw Material they have to work with. Are Parents involved, check homework, active in PTA, are educated themselves, value education etc


50 posted on 07/04/2020 6:16:04 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake (Remeber)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Ending" has proven problematic, I suggest a rule enhancement.
51 posted on 07/04/2020 6:17:54 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: DLfromthedesert

This should have been done on Day 1.“

I have several other things to add to that list. Trump naively believed he would be rewarded by being restrained and get cooperation for the good of the country. He.knows better now. If he wins our patience will be rewarded. The second term will be a cleansing fire. The left knows this which is why all hell is breaking loose.


52 posted on 07/04/2020 6:23:23 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: jeffc

No, no...it’s good that he announced it and the Dems can go judge-shopping. It’s important for people to see who side the Dems are really on. Those suburban voters will look at this and defect to Trump.


53 posted on 07/04/2020 6:38:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They just burn ‘em down.


54 posted on 07/04/2020 6:41:08 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What the heck took him so long?? This non-stop effort to expand the cultural/communist umbrella of each city over the nearest suburbs has been going on far too long and should have been a "first year" target... This act has been just one of the r mainstays of the cancer-like spread of communism out of the major cities like:
55 posted on 07/04/2020 7:06:17 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
And they’re liberals who put up Obama and Stacy Abrams signs.

Can't extend my understanding and acceptance to those who would empower Obama and Abrams. Too much harm is being done to our Republic to let that go.

56 posted on 07/04/2020 7:14:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Low income housing leads to blight.


57 posted on 07/04/2020 7:14:44 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Everyone on a Section 8 voucher needs to be bonded. If the Section 8 recipient is evicted due to criminal activity, they’re relocated to the house of a Democrat politician who signed off on the Section 8 program or the house of the homeowner who the voucher was paid to.


58 posted on 07/04/2020 7:15:26 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the President keeps making moves like that one, this is what the election will look like (run to the polls scene in “Head of State”).

https://youtu.be/PLeM8iFgyIs?t=60


59 posted on 07/04/2020 7:34:22 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: kaehurowing

Was this Obama’s plan to ghettoize the suburbs?
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Obama was and is a puppet of the Globalists headquartered in Brussels. He was ordered to implement UN Agenda 21, a part of which is the enforcement of regulations that will force public housing, racial quotas, and shopping districts into every suburban community in the country. And that’s just the beginning of a massive assault on the freedom of individuals to control their own environment and their own lifestyles.


60 posted on 07/04/2020 7:34:46 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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