An African-American millionaire can buy a home in any expensive suburb. Color is no longer a barrier. Despite this progress, President Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development is accusing expensive towns of racism, simply because most minorities can't afford to live there.
Westchester County, N.Y., has struggled since 2009 under a plan by a federal monitor to compel the county to comply with HUD's demands for multiunit affordable housing in expensive areas. Hillary Clinton claims to be a warrior against inequality.
But her adopted hometown of Chappaqua, an upscale Westchester village that one resident describes as "a little piece of heaven," is battling HUD's demands. The legal war in Hillary's backyard is a preview.
The Obama administration is pulling out all the stops to launch a legal and regulatory assault on suburbs nationwide. HUD's soon-to-be-released regulation, in the works since 2013, will compel affluent suburbs to build more high-density, low-income housing, plus, of course, sewers, water lines, bus routes and other changes needed to support it.
All in the name of housing "fairness."
Obama's social engineers will eliminate local zoning, such as one-acre minimum lots, to achieve what the HUD rule calls "inclusive communities." Property values be damned.
If you've worked hard to afford a home in an affluent neighborhood of single-family houses, you have a lot to lose under this HUD plan.
The HUD rule twists the original and laudable intent of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which is to bar discrimination in renting, selling or financing housing.
The new rule states that towns must "affirmatively further" diversity. If low-income minorities want to move to a town but can't afford it, the town must "provide adequate support to make their choices viable."Read the rest of the story HERE.
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