July 25, 2020
As so often in the law, one thing often means another. AFFH appeared to prevent housing discrimination, but it also prevented single-family housing in the suburbs (I've posted many articles about this in these pages). Single-family housing has nothing to do with racism. There are black families living two and three doors up from me in single-family homes here in the 'burbs.The Trump administration has ditched the Obama administration’s "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing†rule (AFFH). As we have often reported, AFFH is a vast social engineering project that enables the federal government to order more than 1,200 cities and counties that accept any part of annual community development block grants to rezone neighborhoods along income and racial criteria. It thus allows unaccountable federal bureaucrats to dictate who lives where, in order to create racially and economically balanced neighborhoods. It effectively abolishes self-government in the suburbs.
I’m surprised that it took the Trump administration three-and-half years to revoke AFFH. To be fair, though, Ben Carson’s Department of Housing and Urban Development effectively rendered AFFH a dead letter during those three-and-half years. The important thing was to take it off the books before Trump leaves office.
With that now accomplished, AFFH can become an important issue in the presidential election. The Biden campaign will claim that scrapping it is evidence that Trump supports housing discrimination — more evidence of his alleged racism.
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I don't know how you can sue over the rescinding of an executive order, but the Left will do so.
One of the primary purposes for this order was to gerrymander. The Democrats have been losing steadily at state and local levels for some time; their power is almost exclusively in the cities these days. This was an attempt to thwart the power of redistricting; they wanted to colonize Republican districts so as to make redistricting a mute point.
It would have worked to a degree, too, if it had been fully implemented.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 26, 2020 06:18 AM (mQeN2)
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