Thursday, June 11, 2015

Here Come Utopian "Obamavilles"

by JASmius



Stanley Kurtz was right:

Housing regulations aimed at diversifying wealthy neighborhoods, which some say is executive overreach for the purpose of establishing a utopia, are expected to be released by the Obama administration this month.

Oh, it'll establish something, but "utopia" is not the term to describe it.

[Julian Castro's] Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will release the rules with the aim of ending "segregation" in neighborhoods around the country, the Hill is reporting.

In other words, ending freedom of association - and a great deal more.  Or the housing equivalent of 1970s-era forced busing.  Which, as I recall, was SUCH a success.

HUD plans to offer grant money to communities willing to build [una]ffordable housing within affluent neighborhoods.

Thus destroying their real estate value with the influx of drugs, squalor, violence, and crime.  Kind of the housing equivalent of how environmentalists use "wetland" designations to destroy private land value.

On the flip side, the federal agency will also give money to poorer neighborhoods to improve those communities through better schools, parks, libraries and grocery stores.

Which never improves a damn thing, or it already would have decades ago, and they know it.

"HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all," a HUD spokeswoman told the Hill.

Equal RESULT, actually, where everybody is poor and dependent.

"The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds."

Even - especially - if those "barriers" are private property.

The regulations are a continuation of a rule made by the Obama administration in 2013, in which HUD started gathering data about diversity in neighborhoods around the country for the purpose of making such [unconstitutional] policy changes.

And the aforementioned Mr. Kurtz saw it coming at least that far back - and "degentrification" is just the beginning:

A year ago, I published Spreading the Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. There I described [Barack Obama]’s second-term plan to press a transformative “regionalist” agenda on the country. Early but unmistakable signs indicate that Obama’s regionalist push is well underway. Yet [The One] doesn’t discuss his regionalist moves and the press does not report them.

The most obvious new element of [Obama]’s regionalist policy initiative is the July 19th [2013] publication of a Department of Housing and Urban Development regulation broadening the obligation of recipients of federal aid to “affirmatively further fair housing.” The apparent purpose of this rule change is to force suburban neighborhoods with no record of housing discrimination....

Which is simply assumed by dint of the fact that not every neighborhood "looks" they way the Regime wants each neighborhood to look.

....to build more public housing targeted to ethnic and racial minorities. Several administration critics noticed the change and challenged it, while the [Obamedia] has simply declined to cover the story.

Yet even critics have missed the real thrust of HUD’s revolutionary rule change. That’s understandable, since the Obama administration is at pains to downplay the regionalist philosophy behind its new directive. The truth is, HUD’s new rule is about a great deal more than forcing racial and ethnic diversity on the suburbs. (Regionalism, by the way, is actually highly controversial among minority groups. There are many ways in which both middle-class minorities in suburbs, and less well-off minorities in cities, can be hurt by regionalist policies–another reason those plans are seldom discussed.)

The new HUD rule is really about changing the way Americans live. It is part of a broader suite of initiatives designed to block suburban development, press Americans into hyper-dense cities, and force us out of our cars. Government-mandated ethnic and racial diversification plays a role in this scheme, yet the broader goal is forced “economic integration.” The ultimate vision is to make all neighborhoods more or less alike, turning traditional cities into ultra-dense Manhattans, while making suburbs look more like cities do now. In this centrally-planned utopia, steadily increasing numbers will live cheek-by-jowl in “stack and pack” high-rises close to public transportation, while automobiles fall into relative disuse. [emphases added]

You know.....

























...."Utopia".

See why they call it "progressivism"?

Nah, I don't either.

But sixty-two million  Americans voted for it.  Twice.

And now there's no escape.

Is there?

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