Here's the key part of a short amendment that senator Mike Lee is proposing:
None of the funds mad available by the Act may be used to carry out the final rule of the Department of Housing and Urban Development entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing"
It doesn't sound like much, but it is, by far, the most important sentence in Washington this week. If this amendment gets passed then the crazy overreach by the Obama administration to try to control America's suburbs will be stopped. In case you don't know, HUD adopted a rule that allows it to condition grants to towns and cities on those entities achieving certain racial, economic and other social integration levels. Simply put, if you live in a suburb with average suburban zoning, your town will be given a choice: it can bring public housing for the poor of other areas into town or it can forego all grants from HUD. Billions of dollars of federal money is to be used to push America's suburbs into building public housing. Few cities or towns will be able to resist that enticement.
But here's the key: this HUD rule is not proceeding pursuant to some directive passed by Congress. There is no law whatsoever that underlies the rule. HUD just adopted the rule that puts conditions on block grants that Congress itself never approved.
The best way for Congress to take back control of how these funds are dispersed is to prohibit HUD from funding its rule.
None of the funds mad available by the Act may be used to carry out the final rule of the Department of Housing and Urban Development entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing"
It doesn't sound like much, but it is, by far, the most important sentence in Washington this week. If this amendment gets passed then the crazy overreach by the Obama administration to try to control America's suburbs will be stopped. In case you don't know, HUD adopted a rule that allows it to condition grants to towns and cities on those entities achieving certain racial, economic and other social integration levels. Simply put, if you live in a suburb with average suburban zoning, your town will be given a choice: it can bring public housing for the poor of other areas into town or it can forego all grants from HUD. Billions of dollars of federal money is to be used to push America's suburbs into building public housing. Few cities or towns will be able to resist that enticement.
But here's the key: this HUD rule is not proceeding pursuant to some directive passed by Congress. There is no law whatsoever that underlies the rule. HUD just adopted the rule that puts conditions on block grants that Congress itself never approved.
The best way for Congress to take back control of how these funds are dispersed is to prohibit HUD from funding its rule.
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