Fundamentally, AFFH is an attempt to achieve economic integration. Race and ethnicity are being used as proxies for class, since these are the only hooks for social engineering provided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Like AFFH itself, today’s Washington Post piece blurs the distinction between race and class, conflating the persistence of “concentrated poverty” with housing discrimination by race. Not being able to afford a freestanding house in a bedroom suburb is no proof of racial discrimination. Erstwhile urbanites have been moving to rustic and spacious suburbs since Cicero built his villa outside Rome. Even in a monoracial and mono-ethnic world, suburbanites would zone to set limits on dense development.
Emily Badger’s piece in today’s Washington Post focuses on race, but the real story of AFFH is the attempt to force integration by class, to densify development in American suburbs and cities, and to undo America’s system of local government and replace it with a “regional” alternative that turns suburbs into helpless satellites of large cities. Once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, no policy area is safe. Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and the new, unelected regional bodies the feds will empower. Over time, AFFH could spell the end of the local democracy that Alexis de Tocqueville rightly saw as the foundation of America’s liberty and distinctiveness. (read more)
Thursday, July 9, 2015
"Massive Government Overreach: Obama’s AFFH Rule Is Out"
If you thought Obamacare was overreach, and, early reports of what 'Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule' (AFFH) portents are true, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Any resistance to this will be labeled RACISSS. And the Left thinks that that will be that. The Left is wrong. The forced DESTRUCTION of suburbia will be the overreach that will result in huge secession movements and eventual actual secession, peaceful or otherwise.
The Marxists are making their push. Why aren't any of these people dead yet?
I'm all for it. My little cul-de-sac is right in line with the local demographics at 5/3 W/B. We might need to run off one more white guy, but I've got a particularly snooty neighbor in mind, so that's OK.
It's time to share the blessings of a truly integrated society with our urban friends up north. If I recall correctly, this is what the 101st Airborne is for.
Let's just propose we get rid of all state and local govt agencies, elected offices and employees and see if libruls embrace that idea. They won't and when they won't, we then tell them to STFU.
There's a disparate number of conservatives in San Francisco. This has been going on for decades and can only be the result of institutional bias and affirmative prejudice. I demand Justice! Social Justice! No Justice, No Peace! Something must be done! Integrate mah neighborhood. Import some conservatives, give them sanctuary, let 'em kill off a few annoying progs. A small price to pay, I say.
AJ, they'd love that. They'd just convert the local yokels into federales.
Amartel:
Very possible I agree but it could be interesting to see how state and local govt workers view it. I lean to a Hunger Games struggle between the Federal Forces of Evil and their state and local counterparts.
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