What Obama is really hoping to do here is to control all of the remaining voting blocs. If he can force communities to "diversify" and bring in people on welfare, etc., he can dilute the strong conservative voting areas and potentially force close races in many Senate and House races which have traditionally been a lock for Republicans.

Now this is also a direct attack on freedom of association rights and property rights as well. You can rest assured that if this goes unchallenged, you can be sure that this country has completed its slide into socialism and totalitarianism is only a few short years away.

I sincerely hope that this will be a tipping point and back-fire on them.

The only way HUD can enforce this is if you take their money.
This seems to be a major mechanism by which the Fed forces its whim on us all locally.

With some effort and foresight, this move by the Beltway Marxists could trigger a "Divest DC" movement.

Stop taking their money, then tell them to pound sand.

My consent.

If wiggys is correct about how this will work, it will resolve itself because people are more portable than buildings. The resolution will not be without significant cost to the affluent neighborhoods, but this is what I would see happening if the plan wiggys describes is implemented and then 'everything is left alone':

The low rent towers will be built in good neighborhoods. Crime will increase; property values will go down. The people who own adjacent properties will sell their homes as soon as their foresight and wisdom dictates. They will move to some neighborhood somewhere there is not a low income intrusion.

Either the place they move to will have protection against forcible low income building projects or it will not: if the former, then new 'good neighborhoods will form'; if the latter, repeat the sequence.

Jan

Under the Obama Administration we are subject to the whims of an incipient dictator. One of the problems, as I see it, is that we voted a change in congress, and what have these super conservatives done besides run for president? They seem to have their heads up their respective asses or are taking yoga so that they can master the technique.

Well, if this passes, I would love to get an action committee together to FORCE the neighborhood he is moving to in Hawaii to accept illegal immigrants and criminals next to his family..

I live in a small rural community (Clovis, NM) and it's housing policy is based on economic means. The poorer or lower income people live in trailer parks on the outskirts of the city. The middle class or upper low income live in the older section of town. The upper middle and upper economic class lives in the north and north eastern parts of the city where the newer houses are being built. It is not divided by ethnicity but by your income. This is a small city based on agriculture and transportation (train). The city was formed due the train development back in the late 1800's to early 1900's. So the old money was related to the railroad people and they built the nice houses away from the tracks, so their houses were on the north side of town and were big and built from brick. The south side of the tracks was the shacks and low income area, a lot of farm workers lived in the area and it still has several areas that are trailer parks and low income housing. I live south but I am outside the city in the county and have acreage with a nice house on it. I was attracted by the low prices and large lots. I could afford a bigger house but why waste money on what I don't need. A lot of city and county employees live out here with some retirees mixed in across several ethnic and economic class levels. I think we don't need these rules as we are already there and we don't need some social activist from Chicago or DC messing with our community. How about working on bringing jobs to economically stressed areas so people can afford better housing? How about getting rid of regulations that make it harder for people to raise their economic means to afford better housing? All this started well before O and will continue as long as DC keeps trying to regulate our way of life.

I like the "diversification" feature: I am a white male who works for a living. That should make me eligible for the White House - for the sake of diversity!

If the Republican's don't crush the Dems on this, they suck...wait, they already suck, maybe just a little less left.

If you like your neighborhood, you can keep your neighborhood...oh...wait...

Doesn't this remind you of the last scene in 1984?

Given the total lack of oversight by SCOTUS on the unconstitutional bills passed over the last several decades, I'd say no, there's apparently no limit to what Washington thinks it can do and get away with.

So the real question is: Had enough yet? Revolution anyone? Because the people in power will never willingly relinquish it and be bound by the Constitution...never.

So how are they going to control the communities??

They would have to deny someone the right to live there in order to give that house to someone else. result - Government endorsed discrimination.

So if it's a real expensive house how can they afford it? Government grant? How is that fair to the people that had to actually work hard to earn the money, all of the money, themselves to live in the neighboring houses?

Then what about taxes, and maintenance cost. Expensive houses usually have other equally high cost things associated with them. Will the government pay those to? Thus forcing some people to have to earn it while giving it for free to others.

Now…how's that equality???

If the federal govt. begins to be an entity which needs to force the people, then it has no more legitimacy and it is the duty of the people to rise and revolt against it.

Until the USSC does their job and reign in the Federal powers to those strictly authorized in the Constitution... no... or the voters vote better.

I just read the headlines about the usa signing the agreement with iran. and if the congress balks 0 will veto the balk. so under 0 the government is doing more against the will of the people. 0 has a hammer and nails and he is using them willie nillie to hammer the cover of the coffin of the usa shut as quickly as possible. and if the congress were too over turn a veto they will be called racists. 0 sure knows how to get the best out of people. I really wonder how many white people outside the south have become racists, as I know having lived in the south there are many more than you can imagine if you never lived there.

No. There isn't. That's why we have...no, had....a Constitution. Want to fix that? you need the amendments process see http://www.TheSocietyProject.org

The Government can only force you to do what you let them force you to do.

That does not mean they will not react and punish you, but capitulation is your choice.

Of course the government can force whatever they want to on you. Plus, in the famous words of Rearden in the movie, "The government taxes what it wants and taxes the rest." Don't expect either faction (GOP or Dem) of the Big Government Party to do anything but protect their own power.

I believe we were told to sit down, shut up, and eat our peas. Apparently, they can force peas on us.

I just heard and read about this today.
SO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVES AS THE EXAMPLE I HEARD 50 MILLION TO A CITY WITH A 10 MILLION DOLLAR DEBT. THEY PAY OF THE DEBT AND HAVE 40 MILLION TO BUILD LOW INCOME HOUSING IN THE FORM OF SAY 6 STORY BUILDINGS. THEN THEY MOVE IN PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LOW INCOME BUT NO INCOME EXCEPT THEY ARE GETTING WELFARE SO THE GOVERNMENT IS GETTING BACK SOME OF THE WELFARE MONIES GIVEN OUT. THEN OF COURSE THE "PROJECT" AS THEY WERE CALLED IN NYC AND CHICAGO (CABRINI) AND THEY TURN TO S--- AS WE KNOW THEY WILL. BUT 0 WILL HAVE HIS CUSTOMARY S--- EATING GRIN AS USUAL. WILL IT BE STOPPED WHO KNOWS BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE AN EFFORT TO FORCE ANYTHING ON US THEY WHO EVER THEY ARE WANT. I AM VERY ANGRY ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I KNOW ONCE IT DOES GET GOING IT WILL NOT BE STOPPED. MORE NAILS IN THE COFFIN OF THE USA AND NOT ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTED WILL STAND UP AND SAY IT IS TIME TO TELL 0 AND HIS CROWD TO F--- OFF.

The as I see it, is that a FEW people see the writing on the wall, but it truly goes nowhere, but the majority wants to keep the status quo, and than complain, albeit it is always too late...and than the sh-- hits the fan, and they wonder WHY!
GO FIGURE!

Maybe it is time to move to the country somewhere

To answer your question...no. We have had a new series of laws passed here in California that indicate to me that nothing is off limits anymore. The gates have opened. I see it here. Get ready, my friends. You aint seen nothing yet...

This emphasizes why it is so important to be truly INdependent.