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More targeting of the suburbs by the left. They won't rest until they destroy suburbia. And no doubt they will use Biden's hordes if illegals to achieve this goal
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Actions by the Biden administration to expand racial equity are making their way into America’s suburbs and towns.
The Department of Housing and Development (HUD) is implementing a new program that would compel any town, city, or county that accepts federal housing grants to “proactively take meaningful actions to overcome patterns of segregation, promote fair housing choice, eliminate disparities in opportunities, and foster inclusive communities free from discrimination.”
The program, called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), is a reinstatement of HUD’s 2015 AFFH Rule, originally introduced by the Obama administration but repealed in 2020 by the Trump administration, which criticized the policy’s “onerous burden on localities and federal overreach into local housing policy.”
Under the Biden policy, “in order to qualify for community development block grant funds, [communities] have to prepare and submit a plan to demonstrate that they are ‘affirmatively furthering fair housing,’” Howard Husock, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The Poor Side of Town,” a critique of American housing policies, told The Epoch Times. “They will have to pass muster with regulators at HUD, who will review the steps they’re taking and decide whether they measure up.”
Among the things that HUD will look for, Mr. Husock said, is if low-income housing “is being built in 'high-opportunity neighborhoods'; is it being built close to high-performing schools; is close to libraries or supermarkets; with public facilities being located in ways that best serve those of a low income.”
According to a statement by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, “Hardworking families are blocked from purchasing homes because of the color of their skin.”
The 1968 Fair Housing Act was enacted following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or family status.
However, a clause in the Act that directs the government to “affirmatively further fair housing” has been used by the Biden to expand enforcement beyond the transaction of buying or renting a home, intending to compelling municipalities to create equity plans for diversifying communities.
“You could say you’re furthering it by doing spot checks on realtors to make sure they’re not discriminating,” Mr. Husock said. “But they’re interpreting ‘furthering’ to mean a mix of incomes in various zip codes.”
The new rule will mandate that “local governments and other recipients of HUD funding set ambitious goals to not only confront and reject housing discrimination in all forms but recognize and remedy enduring inequality,” Ms. Fudge stated. “This rule will be vitally important to our work to address ongoing segregation, disinvestment from communities of color and discrimination in housing markets.”
Centralizing Authority in D.C.
Critics of the measure contend that, in addition to stepping outside the law’s original intent, it is yet another measure to centralize authority and decision-making with the federal government and weaken the voices in local communities.
“It’s a long-running increase in federal purview over local authorities, going back to the ‘60s when federal grants and aid started to take off,” Mr. Husock said. “Once these kind of grants from the federal government started, and really ballooned to the point now that there are thousands of them, all of them can provide government leverage.
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