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Better your lives through hard work and initiative. Stop crying about how unfair shit is.
Fucking socialists!
BY*PAUL SPERRY,*FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
07/08/2015 07:04 PM ET
Foes point to Westchester County, N.Y., as an example of how HUD seeks to control suburban zoning and building. HUD has withheld $17 million in funds from the tony community after it failed to build several hundred affordable-housing units under federal order.
Single-Family Zoning = Bias?
"HUD has said that even quarter-acre (lot) single-family zoning, in their view, may very well be discriminatory and perpetuate 'segregation,'" Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino told IBD. "This is about changing every block, every neighborhood to the viewpoint of federal bureaucrats."
HUD plans to release "geospatial" data of every U.S. neighborhood to show racial bias patterns.
HUD says localities can "overcome" such patterns in "low-minority areas" by, among other things, "amending a local land use or zoning law to remove barriers to the development of affordable housing in areas of opportunity," where jobs, quality schools, parks and grocery stores are more plentiful.
They can also satisfy regulators by expanding Section 8 subsidized housing in those areas.
Section 8 Concerns
In fact, HUD in its rule suggests that local housing authorities augment rental vouchers to cover higher rents in wealthy suburbs and give poor minorities a list of landlords willing to lease units, along with relocation counselors.
The agency also urges housing authorities to "take regional approaches to HCV (Housing Choice Vouchers) mobility practices," including forming regional consortia to coordinate Section 8 relocations.
But even HUD-sponsored studies have found a link between Section 8 tenants and higher crime. The Urban Institute found in a 2012 study that tenants who moved in the last decade from inner-city public housing to Section 8 rentals in Atlanta and Chicago suburbs tended to bring crime with them.
"Destination neighborhoods would have been 2.8% and 5.5% lower, respectively, for violent crime in Atlanta and Chicago" without relocated Section 8 households, the study found.
White suburbanites are not the only ones upset. Middle-class African-Americans in Chatham, Ill., for example, have complained that violent crime has moved in with tenants from Chicago projects. Black professionals there say they now hear frequent gunfire, and blame Section 8 renters involved in drugs and gangs for increased violence.
Better your lives through hard work and initiative. Stop crying about how unfair shit is.
Fucking socialists!
BY*PAUL SPERRY,*FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
07/08/2015 07:04 PM ET
Foes point to Westchester County, N.Y., as an example of how HUD seeks to control suburban zoning and building. HUD has withheld $17 million in funds from the tony community after it failed to build several hundred affordable-housing units under federal order.
Single-Family Zoning = Bias?
"HUD has said that even quarter-acre (lot) single-family zoning, in their view, may very well be discriminatory and perpetuate 'segregation,'" Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino told IBD. "This is about changing every block, every neighborhood to the viewpoint of federal bureaucrats."
HUD plans to release "geospatial" data of every U.S. neighborhood to show racial bias patterns.
HUD says localities can "overcome" such patterns in "low-minority areas" by, among other things, "amending a local land use or zoning law to remove barriers to the development of affordable housing in areas of opportunity," where jobs, quality schools, parks and grocery stores are more plentiful.
They can also satisfy regulators by expanding Section 8 subsidized housing in those areas.
Section 8 Concerns
In fact, HUD in its rule suggests that local housing authorities augment rental vouchers to cover higher rents in wealthy suburbs and give poor minorities a list of landlords willing to lease units, along with relocation counselors.
The agency also urges housing authorities to "take regional approaches to HCV (Housing Choice Vouchers) mobility practices," including forming regional consortia to coordinate Section 8 relocations.
But even HUD-sponsored studies have found a link between Section 8 tenants and higher crime. The Urban Institute found in a 2012 study that tenants who moved in the last decade from inner-city public housing to Section 8 rentals in Atlanta and Chicago suburbs tended to bring crime with them.
"Destination neighborhoods would have been 2.8% and 5.5% lower, respectively, for violent crime in Atlanta and Chicago" without relocated Section 8 households, the study found.
White suburbanites are not the only ones upset. Middle-class African-Americans in Chatham, Ill., for example, have complained that violent crime has moved in with tenants from Chicago projects. Black professionals there say they now hear frequent gunfire, and blame Section 8 renters involved in drugs and gangs for increased violence.
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