HUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: There Goes Everyone’s Neighborhood…
The Imperial President has seized another chunk of our freedom … again. Loss of freedom begins with baby steps. Perhaps when one’s high-water usage toilet is confiscated in favor of “water saving” models that must be flushed three times to do the same job as one flush from the original. Then, suddenly, we find that government mandated healthcare is now the law of the land. Involvement is mandatory and is being governed through the yet-to-be-fettered IRS. Failure to participate results in escalating fines which become usurious, rapidly. Now, here comes the regime’s Department of Housing and Urban Development. If you think where and how you live is exclusively up to you, think again.
FOX News reported Thursday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development “is imposing a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America’s neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory. The policy is called, ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.’ It will require HUD to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every single neighborhood and try to remedy it.”
How does HUD propose to do that? According to HUD, by using their “discrimination database” to require changes to zoning laws, housing finance policy, infrastructure planning and transportation to alleviate alleged discrimination and segregation. All that is necessary is an allegation that such social no-no’s exist. Who gets to decide what is discrimination or segregation? Or whether it is true? Why, the Lyin’ King’s regime does, of course. And Trayvon Martin’s daddy-in-spirit has been proven to be a completely objective authority on such matters, hasn’t he?
Like most of the government’s Brobdingnagian power grabs, there are no specifics on how AFFH is to be handled. If the Affordable Care Act is any guide, this is more of the same: “(AFFH) does not prescribe or enforce specific policies.” It is currently in a 60 day comment period but the rule has been added in the Federal Register.
According to FOX News, Ed Pinto of the American Enterprise Institute, insists that “this smacks of “utopian idealism”: “This is just the latest of a series of attempts by HUD to social engineer the American people …It started with public housing and urban renewal, which failed spectacularly back in the 50’s and 60’s. They tried it again in the 90’s when they wanted to transform house finance, do away with down payments, and the result was millions of foreclosures and financial collapse.”