Tavares, FL Jan. 5, 2018 by Vance Jochim
Here is an earlier 2016 background video on AFFH from critic John Anthony:
Both news sources mostly complain from a liberal standpoint, and don't quote from critics of the program, so I have included my list of critics like Fox News, John Anthony, Rush Limbaugh, the National Review and other sources at the bottom of this document, including a link where Trump said in 2016 that he would discontinue AFFH.
I also wrote earlier articlea on the dangers of AFFH HERE: http://www.fiscalrangers.com/affh/
The implementation of this rule was forced on Counties and Cities like Lake County, FL who accepted CDBG grant funds from the Federal Government. So Lake County and some cities all had to start this AFFH study last year, so work can be stopped.
Now it is dead. Trump has issued an order via HUD to notify cities and counties they can stop work on their "studies" and that HUD will no longer process them.
This is a good thing, because old rules focused on building up less wealthy neighborhoods, but Obama's rule would require cities and counties to make wealthier neighborhoods build affordable housing in them. Early pilot programs had resulted in big lawsuits to resist. Think of it as one way busing of poor neighborhoods into others.
This long NYT article does say that early feedback indicated that many low income folks did NOT want to move, thus HUD actually increased programs to build up existing programs.
However, the NYT mostly quotes liberals wailing about the loss of the program, and not the critics. Watch for similar articles from the AP published in local press that eliminate quotes from critics.
Conclusion:
So, another wealth redistribution socialistic program bites the dust. MAGA!! Although work was stopped and deadlines extended, I expect the current, more sane Congress to totally reverse the AFFH rule later.
Sources on AFFH and critics of AFFH collected by Vance Jochim of FiscalRangers.com
Experts on AFFH:
Stanley Kurtz
HUD page on AFFH - not dated
HUD final AFFH rule - pending publication in Federal Register - 377 pages
March 18, 2016 - Video on dangers of AFFH by John Anthony - 5 min
June 10, 2016 AFFH Update - DailyCaller.com
Trump says he will discontinue AFFH
May 3, 2016 - Email from John Anthony at Sustainable Freedom Lab re signing petition to not let HUD muzzle CEO of Westchester County re AFFH debacle
Apr. 27, 2016 - Sustainable Freedom Labs article about Castle Rock, CO refusing HUD grants for CDBG to avoid AFFH
Letter from town to HUD:
Dec. 17, 2015 - 2015 Omnibus Budget bill stripped of Gosar Amendement to prevent AFFH implementation
More bad news about the Omnibus spending bill: the Gosar Amendment language has been stripped out. This language would have prevented the Obama administration from implementing its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule (AFFH), a radical plan to use the power of the national government to create communities of a certain kind, each having what the federal government deems an appropriate mix of economic, racial, and ethnic diversity.
Jul 20, 2015 - National Review article on AFFH - EXCELLENT - gives background leading to AFFH
" Barack Obama turned against the suburbs and threw in his lot with a group of Alinsky-style community organizers who blamed suburban tax-flight for urban decay. Their bible was Cities Without Suburbs, by former Albuquerque mayor David Rusk. Rusk, who works closely with Obama’s Alinskyite mentors and now advises the Obama administration, initially called on cities to annex their surrounding suburbs. When it became clear that outright annexation was a political non-starter, Rusk and his followers settled on a series of measures designed to achieve de facto annexation over time. The plan has three elements: 1) Inhibit suburban growth, and when possible encourage suburban re-migration to cities. This can be achieved, for example, through regional growth boundaries (as in Portland), or by relative neglect of highway-building and repair in favor of public transportation. 2) Force the urban poor into the suburbs through the imposition of low-income housing quotas. 3) Institute “regional tax-base sharing,” where a state forces upper-middle-class suburbs to transfer tax revenue to nearby cities and less-well-off inner-ring suburbs (as in Minneapolis/St. Paul).
Jul 13, 2015 IndependentSentinel.com article on AFFH - Includes video explanation link - Rob Astorino about Westchester County, NY is test case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC30iixX2Y Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 - Obama to bring in millions through HUD AFFH ( Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing ) act
What emerges is a plan to resettle as many as 20 million illegal immigrants in specific communities as a pretext to tilt the political scales on the national and local political scenes to favor Democrats.
7/16/2015 Fox News article on AFFH
House Committee on HUD Financial Services hearing on "Future of Housing"
7/14/2015
7/14/2015
7/8/2015
7/8/2015
June 15, 2015 Fox News on AFFH
Jan 18, 2015 Daily Signal (Heritage Fdn) article on AFFH pending Supreme Court decision
"The upcoming case is Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. A nonprofit corporation, the Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) “seeks racial and socioeconomic integration in the Dallas metropolitan area” and “assists low-income, predominately African-American families who are eligible for the Dallas Housing Authority’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program in finding affordable housing in predominately Caucasian, suburban neighborhoods.”"
Older early info before AFFH was issued in June, 2015
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Jul 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh: Section 8 housing being forced in nice neighborhoods.
June 11, 2014 - The Blaze
Sept 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh on AFFH
"The most ambitious and distrurbing program" - similar to 1970's forced busing
Aug 8, 2013 - YouTube "NationalNewsChannel video - Obama to enforce diversity in white areas
Look for WSJ and Investors.com op eds on this in 2014 or later.
Hoover Institute has report.
I. Executive Summary Back to Top
Purpose of the Regulatory Action
From its inception, the Fair Housing Act (and subsequent laws reaffirming its principles) outlawed discrimination and set out steps that needed to be taken proactively to overcome the legacy of segregation through the obligation of affirmatively furthering fair housing (AFFH).
Informed by lessons learned in localities across the country, HUD issues this proposed rule, which provides new tools now available to help guide communities in fulfilling the original promise of the Fair Housing Act. The proposed rule involves refining the fair housing elements of the existing planning process that states, local governments, insular areas, and public housing agencies (program participants) now undertake. The process proposed by this rule assists these program participants to assess fair housing determinants, prioritize fair housing issues for response, and take meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing.
As recognized by HUD staff, program participants, civil rights advocates, the GAO, and others, the fair housing elements of current housing and community development planning are not as effective as they could be, do not incorporate leading innovations in sound planning practice, and do not sufficiently promote the effective use of limited public resources to affirmatively further fair housing. The approach proposed by the rule addresses these issues and strengthens AFFH implementation. It does so by providing data to program participants related to fair housing planning, clarifying the goals of the AFFH process, and instituting a more effective mechanism for HUD's review and oversight of fair housing planning. The proposed rule does not mandate specific outcomes for the planning process. Instead, recognizing the importance of local decision-making, it establishes basic parameters and helps guide public sector housing and community development planning and investment decisions to fulfill their obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. In addition, it helps educate other public sector agencies in their planning and investment decisions, and provides relevant civil rights information to the community and other private and public sector stakeholders.
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Vance Jochim
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