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HUD mandates ‘affordable housing’ in affluent suburbs

Somerville said:
I believe it lies in the definition of "suburbs". The communities which surround Baltimore, in other locations could well be seen as urban locales owing to population numbers and job locations. For many, not all, "suburbs" evokes an image of housing developments often including those gated communities noted previously, but with little in the way of job opportunities other than house-keeping and lawn care jobs.
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Well, I was going with the true (or legal, I suppose) definition of suburbs. In my very large city anything not in the city proper is a suburb. Some of them are downtrodden, many are middle-class, and a few are also high-end - no different than the diversity of neighborhoods in the city, which span from rags to riches.

But I did find the actual HUD legal document online, and it does have the exact areas affected (Exhibit 'F'), but you'd have to transpose the census tracks into municipal organization! :doh

For your reference, if interested: HUD: Xerox-031416.pdf
 
Somerville said:
Please read my posts #46 and 48
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Sure, but how does that tie into my questions for the conservative who is complaining about such housing? I don't seethe tie.

I CAN tell you that HUD did not ghettoize the neighborhoods in S.F. So, I'm not following you.
 
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Glen Contrarian said:
"Yes, keep all THOSE people out of our gentrified estates! Now, Jones, hand me my perfumed scarf so I don't have to smell the Great Unwashed - they don't count, you know. Oh, I'm not referring to you of course, but it's all those other people who are poor - it's all their own fault, you know, because we who are wealthy are more intelligent and handsome - we simply are better people, that's all."
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I had a customer in Ann Arbor, Mi. (very liberal city) who lived across an apartment complex that was turned into an experiment like this. Do you think anyone from city council lived anywhere near it? It became the ghetto, there were fights and police showing up constantly, and there was a school bus full of kids that just got home shouting the most disrespectful things you could think of to a cop who had someone pulled over nearby while I was there. Oh, and the value of my customers home took a complete nose dive.
 
jet57 said:
So, two things: those who were born and raised in said areas are supposed to do what?
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Do what about what?

Secondly, those who are working for wages that don't support a living in those areas are - supposed to live 60 miles away where living is cheaper and commute? Leaving 30% of their earnings on the road?
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If they are working for such low wages they should 1.- get a job closer to home, and 2.- work on moving up instead of staying in a very low wage job for the rest of their lives.
 
Anthony60 said:
HUD mandates ?affordable housing? in affluent suburbs | NewBostonPost

“Every person deserves a fair shot at opportunity, and that starts with a decent, safe, and affordable place to call home,” HUD Secretary Julián Castro said in the March 15 announcement. “This agreement sets Baltimore County on a path to stronger, more inclusive communities where everyone can enjoy equal access to opportunity.”

Who the hell asked the government to engineer who lives where? This is just disgusting.
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Low income, read mainly Black were segregated by cities using Federal Funds.


https://www.propublica.org/article/...betrayed-a-landmark-civil-rights-law#comments

The plan, George Romney wrote in a confidential memo to aides, was to use his power as secretary of Housing and Urban Development to remake America's housing patterns, which he described as a "high-income white noose" around the black inner city.

The 1968 Fair Housing Act, passed months earlier in the tumultuous aftermath of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, directed the government to "affirmatively further" fair housing. Romney believed those words gave him the authority to pressure predominantly white communities to build more affordable housing and end discriminatory zoning practices.

Romney ordered HUD officials to reject applications for water, sewer and highway projects from cities and states where local policies fostered segregated housing.
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Anthony60 said:
HUD mandates ?affordable housing? in affluent suburbs | NewBostonPost

“Every person deserves a fair shot at opportunity, and that starts with a decent, safe, and affordable place to call home,” HUD Secretary Julián Castro said in the March 15 announcement. “This agreement sets Baltimore County on a path to stronger, more inclusive communities where everyone can enjoy equal access to opportunity.”

Who the hell asked the government to engineer who lives where? This is just disgusting.
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Just another one of Obamas socialist driven social experiments. Mixing deadbeats with producers doesn't make deadbeats non-deadbeats.
 
Chainsaw said:
Just another one of Obamas socialist driven social experiments. Mixing deadbeats with producers doesn't make deadbeats non-deadbeats.
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People who have fixations seldom recognise their bias - owing to the fixation (Obama's a commie!) and apparently are incapable of reading or understanding anything which shows their fixation to have little connection with reality
 
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