LIBERAL COLLECTIVIST COMMUNE: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DELAYS OBAMA DECREE TO “DIVERSIFY” YOUR COMMUNITY

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The Trump administration has decided to delay — but not yet scrap — a draconian
and widely condemned “regulation” from the Obama administration known
as the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) rule. The
scheme, which became a lighting rod of controversy, aims to gather
massive amounts of demographic data on every community in America, then
use the awesome powers of the federal government to redistribute people
based on race and income. It’s all to advance some nebulous notion of
“diversity” and “fairness,” advocates say. On both sides of the debate,
though, there is an expectation that the recently unveiled delay could
be a stop-gap measure while the rule is totally abolished.
Officially,
the rule was “delayed” because local governments were having trouble
understanding — not to mention complying — with the byzantine mandates.
About one third of the initial local government plans for compliance
submitted to the feds were rejected, sparking concerns, according to
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials. Multiple
local bureaucrats from big liberal cities and the Obama administration
were quoted downplaying the confusion and celebrating the rule as if it
were some great invention or innovation. Unsurprisingly, establishment
mouthpieces such as the New York Times did not quote a single critic, despite quoting liberally from tax-funded supporters with a clear conflict of interest.

  
The rule itself is confusing. Under the guise of making communities
more “diverse” and ending “segregation,” the Housing and Urban
Development Department (HUD) scheme would radically reshape your
neighborhood. Not enough federally subsidized low-income apartments in
your upper- or middle-class suburb of single-family homes? The AFFH
would change that by plopping more welfare recipients and Section
8-subsidized apartments there. Not enough whites, Latinos, black people,
Muslims, or Asians in your community? The AFFH would seek to
redistribute people, too, until the feds’ vision of racial, religious,
and income levels being harmonized is realized across America.
In addition to the gnashing of teeth by the establishment’s leading
propaganda organs, a coalition of establishment AstroTurf groups on the
left-wing fringe also whined about the delay in enforcing the rule.
Basically, the alliance claimed
that poverty and poor education are a result of a federal government
that has not been active enough in redistributing people based on their
demographics and socioeconomic status. However, federal studies that
have been done show
that redistributing poor or minority people into wealthier communities
did not actually improve wellbeing, resulted in more food stamp use, and
brought crime into safer neighborhoods.
Outraged by the delay, the coalition, which includes everything from
transgender groups and the ACLU to a range of front groups for
billionaire extremist George Soros, demanded that HUD begin vigorously
enforcing the decree. Ironically, they claimed not allowing D.C.
bureaucrats to immediately reshape communities across America was
“giving local residents less voice in important decisions about their
communities.” Seriously. 
But if the hysterics are correct, the delay may just be a temporary
measure as the scheme is tossed into the trash heap of regulations being
dismantled by the Trump administration. The current HUD secretary, Ben
Carson, was actually a fierce critic of the scheme prior to joining
Trump’s cabinet. In a stinging rebuke of the power grab, Carson said
that the Obama agency’s rules relied on a “tortured reading” of the
relevant federal statutes.
“The new rule would not only condition the grant of HUD funds to
municipalities on building affordable housing as is the case today, but
would require that such affordable housing be built primarily in
wealthier neighborhoods with few current minority residents and that the
new housing be aggressively marketed to minorities,” warned Carson in a
column while he was running for the GOP nomination.
As intended, the Obama rule would fundamentally transform many
communities — especially wealthier suburbs. “In practice, the rule would
fundamentally change the nature of some communities from primarily
single-family to largely apartment-based areas by encouraging
municipalities to strike down housing ordinances that have no overtly
(or even intended) discriminatory purpose — including race-neutral
zoning restrictions on lot sizes and limits on multi-unit dwellings, all
in the name of promoting diversity,” added Carson, a widely respected
pediatric neurosurgeon once labeled an “extremist” by the fringe
left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.
However, as with other socialist schemes that have backfired
everywhere they have been tried, Carson predicted that the AFFH would
end up becoming yet another government-mandated boondoggle. “These
government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality create
consequences that often make matters worse,” he concluded, offering
examples such as the failed “busing” experiments with school children.
“There are reasonable ways to use housing policy to enhance the
opportunities available to lower-income citizens, but based on the
history of failed socialist experiments in this country, entrusting the
government to get it right can prove downright dangerous.”
However, after becoming HUD boss, Carson has softened his tone, and
vowed to “reinterpret” the rule rather than scrap it altogether,
alarming those who supported him for the post due to his opposition to
AFFH. “Do I believe in fair housing? Of course, I believe in fair
housing,” Carson was quoted as saying by the Washington Examiner,
adding that he did not believe in “extra manipulation and cost.” “So we
just have to reinterpret it, that’s all,” Carson said, without
elaborating on how he might reinterpret it to be less costly and
manipulative. Of course, lawless Supreme Court decrees notwithstanding,
no amount of manipulation outside a constitutional amendment could make
the rule constitutional, since the feds have no constitutional authority
over housing policy, period.
In an e-mail to The New American, American Policy Center
chief Tom DeWeese said much more was needed to rein in an out-of-control
federal government — but that the delay could be a good first step.
“I’m glad to see Carson is finally taking some steps,” said DeWeese,
author of the new book exposing “sustainable development” titled Sustainable! The War on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals.
“Is it enough? Time will tell. He is under tremendous pressure by the
non-governmental organizations [NGOs] to not touch this sacred cow. But
if we are to restore American freedoms and property rights, this must be
the first target.”
An entire chapter in his new book is actually dedicated to exposing
the dangers of Obama’s AFFH scheme. “The main points are that the
enforcement of AFFH, without a clear definition of what it really is —
forcing local communities to strip search every neighborhood for
´equality,’ ‘balance,’ and other specific measures dictated by HUD —has
created specific guidelines dictating specific numbers of each for a
proper “balance,” DeWeese warned. “They have to do this every five
years. If HUD finds the neighborhood ‘out of balance’ then the community
needs to bring it in balance — perhaps by advertising to find the
ethnic or racial groups, etc, to bring in HUD-dictated balance. It is
social engineering and most specifically destroys local rule.”
Trump has cut 22 federal regulations for every new one added,
sparking nationwide celebrations and a dramatic economic boost that has
seen the stock market soar to record highs. The AFFH, though, is more
than just another burdensome Obama-era regulation that is dragging down
productivity and wasting money. Instead, it represents one of the
subversive tactics used by Obama and the establishment behind him to
“fundamentally transform the United States of America,” as Obama
infamously put it. Indeed, it is an attempt to centrally plan local
communities by an all-powerful government that, unless it is restrained,
will continue to devour every last freedom until at last it kills its
own host — the American people.
Not only is this AFFH regulation unconstitutional, it is dangerous:
It undermines freedom of association, the right to self government, the
rule of law, private property rights, local governance, states’ rights,
and much more. Trump and Carson should make good on yet another pledge
by killing the rule once and for all. Then, if they want to truly show
respect for their oath of office, they can work to shut down the entire
unconstitutional and unnecessary “housing” bureaucracy. In the meantime,
though, communities can and must protect themselves from this federally
mandated social engineering by refusing to accept “grants” from HUD —
and by firmly rejecting the strings that come attached to them. 

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