By Tim Devaney – 06/11/15 06:00 AM EDT
The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”
A final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule due out this month is aimed at ending decades of deep-rooted segregation around the country.
The regulations would use grant money as an incentive for communities to build affordable housing in more affluent areas while also taking steps to upgrade poorer areas with better schools, parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.
“HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all,” a HUD spokeswoman said. “The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds.”
It’s a tough sell for some conservatives. Among them is Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who argued that the administration “shouldn’t be holding hostage grant monies aimed at community improvement based on its unrealistic utopian ideas of what every community should resemble.”
“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,” said Gosar, who is leading an effort in the House to block the regulations.
Civil rights advocates, meanwhile, are praising the plan, arguing that it is needed to break through decades-old barriers that keep poor and minority families
https://thehill.com/regulation/244620-obamas-bid-to-diversify-wealthy-neighborhoods
Changing our Master Plan to accomodate high-density housing can only make it easier for them.
Get an education, then get a good job and then you will have equality for all.
The liberal ideal of Utopia – if ever attained – would make most people miserable as it removes all challenges, differences and variety in life.
This is no different from just about everything else that is pushed by the Left, and it’s exactly why their popularity is overwhelmingly adopted by the young.
It seems right, logical, and simply the right thing to do … in theory.
I consider myself left leaning but this is hooey.
Ha Ha… “I’m left leaning… but not in my backyard”
Exactly. You can bet that the limousine liberals in the Village will make sure that any housing aimed at diversification will be far from where they live and not in their Elementary and Middle School zones. They will cheer this Obama plan from the comfort of their wrap-around porches.
It has to be.a part of the new housing. They can’t come in and start buying houses for people.
High density gousing = more kids in school
I believe in economic opportunity, planned families and intact families. With two parents kids will get attention and help with homework. I support personal,responsinility. I do not believe that government should raise a family.
Well considering this is Limousine Liberal Ground Central, I am all in favor accommodating affordable housing.