Housing Income Diversity
New H.U.D. regulations that are now in place and estimated to affect over 1200 communities cities and towns in the US.HUD is saying to communities across the country that want to improve their blighted housing areas and develop more affordable housing , is that unless they comply and income diversify their middle-class and upbeat and upper income communities, HUD will cut off their funding. In other words this is government blackmail.
The left’s rationale is that communities in the United States have a history of putting affordable housing in poor areas and that under the fair housing act of 1968, the HUD is obligated to take action. The Right argues that the Fair Housing act of 1968 applies to racial discrimination in housing and that the new interpretation that it encompasses income diversity is off base.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) said: “American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.”
