HUD

Feds to Map Every Neighborhood in Effort to 'Eliminate Segregation'... ^ “ I know.  I've claimed to have became sufficiently inured to the Obama regime's daily violations of our freedoms, constitutional guarantees, and peace of mind,  that nothing more can surprise me.  Then, each new day they make me the liar.  What in the hell is this about?  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. Donovan said HUD's new neighborhood mapping tool, which uses Census data, will "expand access to high opportunity neighborhoods and draw attention to investment possibilities in under-served communities." My immediate reaction was that Obama, anxious to stop daily headlines about multiple murders in hometown  Chicago's Black neighborhoods, wants the gangs moved into crime free neighborhoods, across the nation.  What else?  Does anyone here know of a place in the United States where impediments, other than the ability to pay for food and shelter,  are in place?  No?  Then what's this about?  More race pandering?  And what a cruelty to include Asians and Latinos in the mix. These are, by-and-large,  people who've adapted; made their way by being industrious and having close knit families.  Old School.  There are no Asian Jesse Jacksons, or that other phony— Tawana Brawly guy—to fill them with resentment and excuses. Under the proposed rule, the neighborhood data provided by HUD will be used to evaluate patterns of integration and segregation, racial and ethnic concentrations of poverty, and access to "valuable community assets." The first time HUD caused this much WTF-ery in me was in the early 70's.  The agency purchased an upscale apartment building on Connecticut Ave, just inside, or outside the D.C.-MD line, I forget which.  The stated goal was to allow the new Great Society welfare class to break out of the D.C. ghettos, where rampant crime, and the MLK riots in '68,  had caused supermarket chains flee.  By moving them to someplace more upscale, these people would have access to grocery, restaurant and entertainmen values, within walking distance. Can you see the problem here? Everyone but HUD did, straightaway.  The nearest supermarket to their new Connecticut Ave. digs was a Safeway, just outside posh, high rent  Georgetown.  I imagine it's where the Kennedy's shopped before John went to the White House.  Guess what? That's right.  The newbies immediately raised cain over the high food prices.  Only this time caused because chitlins and ham hocks were replaced by beef and pork tenderloin as meat aisle staples.  The Feds put pressure on Safeway to stock food more within the abilities of the newly unindigent, which realignment caused customers to migrate to even more expensive stores, like Magruders.  I know all this because I worked the area for Campbell Soup. It seems then that we've arrived at what this is about.  Reinventing failed Great Society initiatives.  Because they were so ... so ... what?  WTF? ”