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Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborhood
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:20 pm
by VMI77
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08 ... ersity-in/
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.
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan unveiled the federal rule at the NAACP convention in July.
"Unfortunately, in too many of our hardest hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, the life chances of that child, even her lifespan, is determined by the zip code she grows up in. This is simply wrong,” he said.
The liberal utopia is just around the corner.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:23 pm
by RoyGBiv
The whole idea is repugnant. Not to mention extra-Constitutional. What debt?
Bread & Circuses.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:11 pm
by alvins
its accually quite simple. cheap houses attract a certain element expensive ones dont. haves and have nots. No middle to upper class neighborhood is going to allow just anyone to move in. People complain about HOA's but they do have a purpose.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:46 pm
by Dave2
alvins wrote:its accually quite simple. cheap houses attract a certain element expensive ones dont. haves and have nots. No middle to upper class neighborhood is going to allow just anyone to move in. People complain about HOA's but they do have a purpose.
Why would a HOA have a say in who can live there? If you can pay for the house, you get to move in.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:52 pm
by CHLLady
Another step towards becoming Britain.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:12 pm
by alvins
Dave2 wrote:alvins wrote:its accually quite simple. cheap houses attract a certain element expensive ones dont. haves and have nots. No middle to upper class neighborhood is going to allow just anyone to move in. People complain about HOA's but they do have a purpose.
Why would a HOA have a say in who can live there? If you can pay for the house, you get to move in.
I guess you have never seen an HOA's power to harass and encourage people to move.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:27 pm
by Dave2
alvins wrote:Dave2 wrote:alvins wrote:its accually quite simple. cheap houses attract a certain element expensive ones dont. haves and have nots. No middle to upper class neighborhood is going to allow just anyone to move in. People complain about HOA's but they do have a purpose.
Why would a HOA have a say in who can live there? If you can pay for the house, you get to move in.
I guess you have never seen an HOA's power to harass and encourage people to move.
Nope. As long as I'm not breaking any rules, what can they do? And why would they do it?
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:44 pm
by stroo
HOAs will allow anyone who can afford a house there and agrees to abide by the HOAs rules to buy and move in. Of course, if after moving in, you don't abide by the rules you agreed to, they will and do impose fines and otherwise harass you. Personally I always liked living in HOAs.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:14 pm
by JALLEN
If you think getting poor people to live in expensive neighborhoods is tough, try getting affluent folk to live in poor neighborhoods!
After the complete pig's breakfast Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac made of the residential market from which the nation has not yet recovered, one would hope that these cockamamie schemes would be hooted down enthusiastically and the proponents run out of town.
Communist nonsense, of course.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:54 pm
by tbrown
In my neighborhood, increasing diversity would mean a larger Asian population and more unmarried heterosexual women. I'm OK with both initiatives.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:53 am
by sjfcontrol
JALLEN wrote:If you think getting poor people to live in expensive neighborhoods is tough, try getting affluent folk to live in poor neighborhoods!
After the complete pig's breakfast Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac made of the residential market from which the nation has not yet recovered, one would hope that these cockamamie schemes would be hooted down enthusiastically and the proponents run out of town.
Communist nonsense, of course.
TAM, One might "hope" it, but I for one don't expect it.
Also...
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.
So "Fair Housing" wasn't enough, now we have to have "Affirmatively Furthered" fair housing? Is that the same as "More Than Fair" housing? Remember, if something is "more than fair" to one side, it's "less than fair" to the other.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:58 am
by baldeagle
I hope the Democrats enthusiastically support the idea. Nothing will drive people away from them faster than messing with the value of their home and ruining their neighborhood. My suggestion would be to start with places like the Hamptons, Kennebunkport, Martha's Vineyard, etc. Let's get those Democrat enclaves faired up. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:15 am
by rotor
Fear not- whatever the plan finally becomes it will not affect the neighborhood your congressman lives in because they will be exempted. Let's all move in next to our congressman. But they won't release their home addresses to the peons (us) so I guess we stay in our segregated little areas. There seems to be no end to the idiots in charge in devising plans to further destroy this country.
Re: Obama to use HUD to compel diversity in your neighborho
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:19 pm
by pancho
baldeagle wrote:My suggestion would be to start with places like the Hamptons, Kennebunkport, Martha's Vineyard, etc.
Don't forget Bel Air, CA, Chevy Chase, MD, Greenwich, CT and Aspen, CO.
