Anarchy is coming. People are waking up. If the worthless scum running the show aren't going to obey the law and exercise responsibility, why should anyone else? I'm done. Call me when the shooting starts.
And it can't come soon enough for a lot of us. In a ongoing battle with the sheeple assigned to his domain, Barry continues his march to total dominance over the land. He started with a thing of beauty called "Disparate impact", for those unfamiliar with it's tenets means.....
the theory of disparate impact holds that practices in employment, housing, or other areas may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate "adverse impact" on persons in a protected class.
If your zip code doesn’t measure up to HUD’s ideals, the agency will be prescribing corrective measures, which essentially come down to running roughshod over local zoning ordinances. HUD has even questioned whether single-family, quarter-acre neighborhoods are discriminatory. In other words, if you now live in a neighborhood of single family homes, you could be living next to apartment buildings in the future, if that’s what HUD determines is needed to cure the demographic imbalances.
In other words, he grants money or withholds money from locals that don't align with federal edicts. Now there is another layer to be added to this distasteful cake in which the feds want to add to the already top heavy bastion of un-elected plutocrats
The Obama economy has been tough on America’s working families. Just last week Pew Research Center reported that in the last 15 years “the middle class lost ground in nearly nine-in-ten U.S. metropolitan areas.” In fact, regulatory fees on home builders have increased a whopping 30 percent since 2011, as reported in The Wall Street Journal.
In other words, this new regulation is designed to give unelected, anonymous bureaucrats in Washington the power to pick and choose who your new next-door neighbor will be. If they don’t believe your neighborhood is “diverse” enough, they will seize control of local zoning decisions—choosing what should be built, where, and who should pay for it—in order to make your neighborhood look more like they want it to.
While household income has largely been flat during the Obama recovery—the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression—housing prices have continued to sky rocket, in large part because government regulations artificially inflate the cost of building new units.
In fact, regulatory fees on home builders have increased a whopping 30 percent since 2011, as reported in The Wall Street Journal.
And yet the Obama administration wants to make this problem even worse by implementing its “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rule, which was issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development last year. According to department officials, this rule is needed because “increasing a neighborhood’s appeal to families with different income and ethnic profiles can encourage a more diversified population and reduce isolation.”
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has this power because far too many communities have become accustomed to relying on the Community Development Block Grant program, which gives federal dollars to local communities for projects designed to reduce poverty and housing segregation.
But a recent study by the Reason Foundation demonstrated that while the Community Development Block Grant program has been a boon for special interests and channeling taxpayer dollars to politically connected groups, it has been entirely unsuccessful in actually reducing poverty or housing segregation.
http://click.heritage.org/qrTM0s1Yez0rP203H0pD00K
So...............This week, the Senate will have a chance to fight back against this misguided power grab, by adopting an amendment to this year’s Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill that would prohibit Department of Housing and Urban Development officials from spending any money to implement the new rule.
Anybody wanna take bets on whether the Senate actually does anything to thwart this BS ?? Huh..anybody ?
