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BO to Regulate ‘Diversity’ in White Suburbs -HUD Effort to House Poor Called ‘Federal Neighborhood Engineering’
Live in a wealthy neighborhood? President Obama wants the poor to live next door.
Cheryl Chumley / WND
President Obama is pressing forward with regulations to diversify wealthy neighborhoods – and critics of the idea haven’t been shy, calling out the idea as ridiculous and an irrational way of advancing the White House’s own vision of a utopian society.
The rules, coming from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, could withhold block grants to communities if they don’t build enough so-called affordable housing in wealthy neighborhoods, the Hill reported.
This is a story WND reported nearly a year ago after the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rules showed up in the Federal Register as a result of an Obama executive order.
The grant dollars could also be used to make improvements in poorer areas by providing libraries, groceries, parks and schools.
“HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all,” a spokesperson for the federal agency said, the Hill reported. “The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds.”
And civil rights people are cheering.
Debby Goldberg, vice president at the National Fair Housing Alliance said the country has “a history of putting affordable housing in poor communities,” and this regulation would rectify that perceived bias, the Hill reported.
But not all see the idea as feasible or palatable.
“American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government,” said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who’s leading up a House effort to block the rules, the Hill reported.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/obama-to-regulate-diversity-in-white-suburbs/
They tried this stupid idea in my city about 35 years ago. It was total and complete failure. It doesn’t work to put the lowest class with upper class people. Was very evident in the schools and considering crimes rose in the neighborhood. It came to an abrupt halt when they (city council) wanted to build another subsidized town house project in one of the alderwoman’s district in which she lived in. She fought it to the bitter end and won. ‘NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!’