Monday, July 22, 2013

HUD plans to racially map every neighborhood in America

Yeah, nothing nefarious about this hyper-partisan, special interest swooning government racially mapping every neighborhood in America. No sooner than Detroit falls, they go right back to the same kind of urban renewal policies that have collapsed so many neighborhoods across America time and time again...
CNSNews: To ensure that "every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of," HUD has published a new fair-housing regulation intended to give people access to better neighborhoods than the ones they currently live in.

The goal is to help communities understand "fair housing barriers" and "establish clear goals" for "improving integrated living patterns and overcoming historic patterns of segregation."

“This proposed rule represents a 21st century approach to fair housing, a step forward to ensuring that every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of – where they have a fair shot at reaching their full potential in life,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.

“For the first time ever," Donovan added, "HUD will provide data for every neighborhood in the country, detailing the access African American, Latino, Asian, and other communities have to local assets, including schools, jobs, transportation, and other important neighborhood resources that can play a role in helping people move into the middle class."
No matter how much they mask it with feel-good language, these little Marxists can't help themselves with the social engineering, following one central planning failure after another, always with the same disastrous results (Cabrini-Green, Pruitt-Igoe and Brewster-Douglass projects come to mind). It's truly the definition of insanity.

Related links: HUD to detail the racial diversity of every neighborhood in America as part of proposed new 'fair housing' rule
Urban Renewal: Lesson in Failure
Urban Renewal's Final Implosion
Urban Renewal: A Flawed Idea That Failed 50 Years Ago

ADDENDUM: Levin had a great segment focused on this story during Monday's program. Check it out @ theRightScoop.