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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 8 2013, 07:24 AM (179 Views) | |
| Guest | Aug 8 2013, 07:24 AM Post #1 |
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In a move some claim is tantamount to social engineering, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is imposing a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America’s neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory. The policy is called, "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing." It will require HUD to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every single neighborhood and try to remedy it. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan unveiled the federal rule at the NAACP convention in July. "Unfortunately, in too many of our hardest hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, the life chances of that child, even her lifespan, is determined by the zip code she grows up in. This is simply wrong,” he said. Data from this discrimination database would be used with zoning laws, housing finance policy, infrastructure planning and transportation to alleviate alleged discrimination and segregation. Specifics of the proposed rule are lacking. Now published in the Federal Register and undergoing a 60-day comment period, the rule, "does not prescribe or enforce specific” policies. But one critic says it smacks of utopian idealism. "This is just the latest of a series of attempts by HUD to social engineer the American people," said Ed Pinto, of the American Enterprise Institute. "It started with public housing and urban renewal, which failed spectacularly back in the 50's and 60's. They tried it again in the 90's when they wanted to transform house finance, do away with down payments, and the result was millions of foreclosures and financial collapse.” Some fear the rule will open the floodgates to lawsuits by HUD -- a weapon the department has already used in places like Westchester County, N.Y., where mayors and attorneys representing several towns, like Cortlandt, are writing HUD to protest burdensome fair housing mandates that go far beyond those agreed to in a 2009 settlement with HUD. One letter written by Cortlandt town attorney Thomas Wood expresses a common dilemma. "Cordlandt is mostly residential and has only a few vacant parcels that could be developed for commercial use," he writes. "In order to stabilize the tax base amongst the most affordable in Westchester County, the Town Board needs to encourage the development of commercial property for commercial use." Rob Astorino, the Westchester County Executive recently said, "What they are trying to do is to say discrimination and zoning is the same thing. They are not. Discrimination won't be tolerated. I won't tolerate it. Zoning though, protects what can and can't be built in a neighborhood." Also troublesome to critics is that the HUD secretary, in announcing this proposed rule, blamed poverty on zip codes – rather than other socio-economic factors that studies have shown contribute to poverty. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/08/obama-administration-using-housing-department-to-compel-diversity-in/#ixzz2bNbQ6wBt |
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| Guest | Aug 8 2013, 08:19 AM Post #2 |
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Move the residents from the Sun Bright Hotel into the ritzy apartments on the east side of New York City. Sounds like a plan to me. Move some section eights next to Bill Ayers and Obama in Chicago. |
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| BenZ | Aug 8 2013, 08:23 AM Post #3 |
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Racist freeper flypaper thread! |
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| Deleted User | Aug 8 2013, 08:26 AM Post #4 |
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FFC's sister must have broken up with him. He seems to have a lot of time on his hands. Not enough time to find sources other than Fox or Breitbart.com, but time nonetheless. |
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| Guest | Aug 8 2013, 09:27 AM Post #5 |
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reverse racism? |
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| Deleted User | Aug 8 2013, 09:32 AM Post #6 |
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A favorite term of the inbred FFC crowd. |
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| Erna | Aug 8 2013, 09:38 AM Post #7 |
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We want to live only where there are nice (rich) people! |
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| Guest | Aug 8 2013, 09:50 AM Post #8 |
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Shades of Elysium. |
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| Erna | Aug 8 2013, 09:55 AM Post #9 |
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Here in Barcelona that means living in the Zona Alta, but alas, we are forced to live in the slums of Barceloneta. https://www.google.com/search?q=barceloneta+barcelona+spain&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=QLEDUoOjI8eP7AamgIGwAQ&ved=0CEwQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=685 |
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| Deleted User | Aug 8 2013, 10:07 AM Post #10 |
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Why, that looks just like Calcutta! |
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| Guest | Aug 8 2013, 10:20 AM Post #11 |
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MPC is this close to you? Canada Real Galiana is a 16km-long, 75m-wide strip of economic and social misery. Believed to be Europe's largest shanty town, it is a mere 15-minute drive from Madrid city centre. "This place reminds me of one of the most run-down slums in Guatemala I used to work in," says Susana Camacho, who works for Fundacion Secretariado Gitano (FSG), a local NGO. It is in stark contrast to the wealth, elegance and sophistication of nearby Madrid, a city voted among the most liveable in the world. Ms Camacho's van makes its way down the single heavily rutted, mud-splattered track that runs through the Galiana, lurching past lines of flimsy tin or wooden shacks, broken only by the odd few bungalows behind walls so high they could withstand a siege. Aside from perhaps a hundred metres of poorly laid tarmac road – paid for by the residents – it is quickly back to a sea of mud, punctuated only by rubbish, scrawny chickens, wrecked cars and mounds of rubble. Dubbed the "slum of shame", the 40-year-old settlement, home to 30,000 people, is completely devoid of any public services – no pavements, schools, sewage or drainage systems. Many of its residents are long-standing, legal immigrants from Portugal, Romania, Morocco or South America. "For many, this place is the last resort," confirms Pablo Asua, another FSG worker. "People in the Galiana have fallen through one support network after another. They don't want to know about society any more, and society doesn't want to know about them." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/in-spains-heart-a-slum-to-shame-europe-6268652.html |
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| Deleted User | Aug 8 2013, 10:34 AM Post #12 |
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Oh, honey. You're just encouraging her to say something nasty and heartless. The super herpes and syphilis have created a firestorm of crazy in her brain. |
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| Erna | Aug 8 2013, 11:32 AM Post #13 |
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no, we live in Barcelona which is quite a few hundred kilometers from madrid |
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| Guest | Aug 8 2013, 01:37 PM Post #14 |
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I love how the propaganda echo chamber that is FoxNews "reports" on "critics" as if they are someone other than the organization "reporting." |
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