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Biden exercised presidential authority and $68.7 billion was awarded to HUD for fiscal year 2022; a $9 billion increase above 2021 funding, expected. *Although the month of April is annually observed as Fair Housing Month, the reality for Black America and other people of color is that housing has not significantly changed since the 1968 federal enactment of the Fair Housing Act. Its enactment came seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had strongly advocated fair...

GOP Rep. Norman Says 10th Amendment Bars Biden’s Bid to Federalize Suburban Zoning Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) says the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bars the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from federalizing suburban zoning powers. “Well, a couple of things. No. 1, it’s against the 10th Amendment,” Norman told The Epoch Times during an interview on April 13, as he returned from an inspection tour of the immigration crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico. “Th...

Biden Moves to Revive Obama Plan to Federalize Suburban Zoning Regulations Buried in the nearly 18,000-word White House Fact Sheet on President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion “American Jobs Plan” infrastructure bill is one paragraph that could turn the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into a zoning commission for suburban America. “For decades, exclusionary zoning laws—like minimum lot sizes, mandatory parking requirements, and prohibitions on multifamily housing�...

Biden commences his war on the suburbs Joe Biden’s “infrastructure” bill isn’t about improving America’s roads, bridges, and other elements of our infrastructure. It’s about transforming America as radically as can be done through spending legislation. We shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that the legislation includes an attack on single-family zoning. Stanley Kurtz has the details. He begins by providing the context: With the introduction of his massive, $2.3 trillion “infras...

Monday, February 15, 2021 Since inauguration, the Biden Administration has used Executive Orders, guidance and regulations, and cabinet nominations to make clear that LGBTQ+ protections are a top policy priority. In the January 26, 2021, press briefing, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice stated that “[e]very agency will place equity at the core of their public engagement, their policy design, and program delivery to ensure that government resources are reaching Americans of color a...

More subsidized housing, in the tragic public-housing tradition, will do little to help minority groups in their quest for upward mobility.

Biden’s Executive Order on Housing: Replacing Old Sins with New Ones Howard Husock © Rick Wilking/Reuters Houses in the Denver, Colo., suburb of Superior in 2006. President Biden’s flurry of executive orders has now extended to housing policy — and to a pledge to reverse the Trump administration’s approach to “fair housing.” Specifically, that would mean reversing the Trump reversal of an Obama-era rule known as “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” — desi...

a- The GOP Establishment has been rightly ridiculed for its formulaic scaremongering against “socialism,” most recently in the disastrous Georgia Senate campaigns.  Of course this has no resonance with the generation that has grown up after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and thinks “socialism” just means government hand-outs, which they want (and need). It’s not even accurate, because socialism properly defined is government ownership of the means of production, distribution and e...

Date Time Share Memorandum on Redressing Our Nation’s and Federal Government’s History of Discriminatory Housing Practices and Policies The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Background and Policy. Diverse and inclusive communities strengthen our democracy. But our Nation’s history has been one of great struggle toward this ideal. During the 20th century, ...

Dan, pfft, what aspect of Ms. Baptista’s straightforward reportage suggests support for racial segregation? Not one iota! Natural communities evolve by and of themselves, here in Oz we have what are colloquially referred to as “Greek” suburbs, “Lebanese” suburbs, “Asian” suburbs, got “Little China”? Got “Little Vietnam”? Etc. etc., for a multitude of ethnicities. No one in Oz has ever suggested that they were manufactured for the purpose of segregation, “birds of a feath...