President
Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development is plotting a power grab
under a new rule that came into effect this past July, and we have the Supreme
Court’s recent ruling on disparate impact in housing policy to thank for it.
HUD
intends to insert itself into local zoning efforts through the AFFH
(Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing) program to push affirmative action in
housing policy, directing HUD grant recipients to “affirmatively further the
Act’s goals of promoting fair housing and equal opportunity.”
But
former elected officials Ken
Blackwell and Rick Manning argue the “AFFH rule seeks to radically reinvent
local zoning laws in the United States – reengineering America’s neighborhoods
based on racial and ethnic quotas. Under the rule’s assessment tool, local
governments are required to ‘identify neighborhoods or areas in the
jurisdiction and region where racial/ethnic groups are segregated.’”………..
The federal regulatory state preys
on and bullies lower levels of government because the precedent for how we
interpret and follow (or, more likely, ignore and obfuscate) laws has been set:
just as the Supreme Court read into and manipulated language from the Civil
Rights Act, so, too, HUD reads into and manipulates the court’s decision.
The Inclusive Communities ruling
is just one example of the great manipulation of the Left, and how blotting out
a few phrases, shifting the meaning of a few words, beget still more reimagined
rules and new tools to power the federal social justice machine. Words serve
their ends until they don’t; intent serves their purpose until it gets in the
way.
The Supreme Court’s justification of
disparate impact leaves us wondering what laws will they manipulate next, and
what new federal powers will arise from them?
Full text at: Get
Ready For Racial Quotas On Your Neighborhood
