Not the Onion: Obama Wants to “Diversify” America’s Wealthy Neighborhoods

Section 8 coming to your neighborhood, whether you like it or not. I wonder if Obama will diversify the Hamptons or the NYC penthouse community.

Heading into the last quarter of Obama’s presidency we heard time and time again that these two years would be the most dangerous for the Republic. His disdain for working with Congress, contempt for the Constitution, and propensity to act unilaterally would only be magnified in the remaining days of his term—after all, he’d go big because he’s going home.

Now that he’s made everything from health care to immigration precipitously worse, next up on the list is an experiment in social engineering.

The Onion The Hill reports:

The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”

A final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule due out this month is aimed at ending decades of deep-rooted segregation around the country.

The regulations would use grant money as an incentive for communities to build affordable housing in more affluent areas while also taking steps to upgrade poorer areas with better schools, parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.

“HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all,” a HUD spokeswoman said. “The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds.”

As you can imagine, the list of critics among conservatives is lengthy. Among them is Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who’s at the forefront of an effort in the House to block the regulations.

“American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government,” he said.

Critics of the rule say it would allow HUD to assert authority over local zoning laws. The agency could dictate what types of homes are built where and who can live in those homes, said Gosar, who believes local communities should make those decisions for themselves rather than relying on the federal government.

If enacted, the rule could depress property values as cheaper homes crop up in wealthy neighborhoods and raise taxes, Gosar warned.

It could also tilt the balance of political power as more minorities are funneled into Republican-leaning neighborhoods, he suggested.

But we were warned, right?

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harry p.
harry p.
June 14, 2015 9:21 am

Yeah, after the displays of “diversity” in Ferguson, Detroit, Chicago and Baltimore I can’t imagine wealthy neighborhoods will take the bait.
Of course when Bam-bam says “wealthy” he means middle-class. The truly affluent, 0.1% wont have to worry about urban yuuts roaming the streets of their gated communities.

cantbaretowatch
cantbaretowatch
June 14, 2015 9:30 am

And a c-section 8 to get them back out.

Stucky
Stucky
June 14, 2015 9:35 am

OBAMA NEIGHBOR PROGRAM
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STUCKY’S CLOTHES FOR WHITE PEOPLE STORE …………
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… good for the STUCKY WELCOME WAGON PROGRAM
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overthecliff
overthecliff
June 14, 2015 9:51 am

The best

kokoda
kokoda
June 14, 2015 9:54 am

Yes indeed, more of better schools (public, union controlled schools that have achieved mediocrity at the highest cost per student in the world), parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.

How about creating JOBS – get rid of the Free Trade Agreements (which are not about trade, but profits for our International Corporations) and stop the TPP, TTIP, and TISA that will further enhance our Int’l Corp’s profits and give them superior legal rights vs citizens.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444
June 14, 2015 9:59 am

HA HA HA HA!!!

About damn time the “wealthy” bear the brunt of the policies they have promoted. I’m tired of wealthy liberals who think I and other middle and lower-middle class people ought to be thrilled to live beside the scum of the planet while these people hide out in exclusive suburbs where anybody who doesn’t appear to “fit in” gets stopped and searched by their police, or in swank apartment buildings with 6 layers of dread-naught security.

Now all the snotty, fake-liberal snots and yups who scorn middle income people as “prejudiced” and “ignorant” will get to live with the results of the “diversity” they have been promoting. After all, it is wealthy property owners who benefit the most from Section 8 subsidies. One infamous landlord in Chicago owns 150 reeking slum buildings, 10 to 30 units each of fetid, unsafe apartments whose tenants’ Section 8 vouchers are keeping her in extremely swank digs in Chicago’s uber-rich Streeterville neighborhood. She has a lot of other notorious slumlords as near neighbors. Let these parasitical scum and the government policy makers who enable them, live with the blight that has generated so much money for them.

kokoda
kokoda
June 14, 2015 10:10 am

I will be kidnapped by aliens and undergo their medical experiments before the Hamptons are ‘diversified’.

flash
flash
June 14, 2015 10:34 am

frankly My Dear: A Guest Post From Ol’ Remus

[The following is a Guest Post from Ol’ Remus of the late and greatly missed Woodpile Report. I keep inviting Remus to become a regular Co-Conspirator here, and he keeps declining. I shall persist! — FWP]

With all the recent troubles we’re again being invited to an honest and open conversation about race, or said differently, the browbeatings will be resumed. Try this for honest and open: many of us, probably most of us, are tired of your whining, your so-called grievances, your violence and crime, your insults and threats, your witless blather and pornographic demeanor—all of it. You’re not quite 13% of the population yet everything has to be about you, all day, every day. With you, facts aren’t facts, everything’s a kozmik krisis, and abusive confrontations are your go-to.

Here’s the thing: some of us despise you, although fewer than you believe, but most of us plain don’t care about you or your doings. There was a time when we did care, but you betrayed our good will and played us for fools. We laugh about it now, but we actually believed you wanted equal opportunity and mutual respect and to live in harmony—all that stuff. Ain’t it a hoot? Imagine our embarrassment.

We talk among ourselves just like you do. It’s true, we have “frank and open discussions” when you’re not around. Why? Partly because it’s exhausting to tippy-toe around you. Partly because you think it’s your celestial right to tell us what we can say. And partly because you’re alarmingly aggressive or painfully dim-witted by turns. We never know which “you” will pop out of the box, or when. But mainly because you’ve revealed yourself as grasping opportunists without honor or principle. There’s your deal-breaker. There’s more.

During the recent riots you expected us to believe heisting snack food then torching the place was “standing up for justice”. When we didn’t buy it, you told us the looting and arson wasn’t done by the rioters after all, no, all the bad stuff was done by rioters from out of town. Apparently you think it makes a difference to us. And if we don’t fall for that one, you tell us you’re the real victims, you’re the ones “hit hardest” because the neighborhoods you looted and burned are, um, looted and burned.

We’ve never stood in your way but we don’t really care if you have good neighborhoods or not. The evidence says you don’t care either, unless we build and maintain them for you, what your enablers call “investments in urban communities.” They don’t mention the return on our past “investments”. Our former neighborhoods weren’t improved by your arrival. Your contempt for ordinary civility tells us no level of “investment” would make a difference. Listen up. It’s simple. Just like our neighborhoods are our responsibility, so are your neighborhoods your responsibility, not ours. Your clownish leaders will tell you otherwise but they’ve always been your responsibility and they always will be your responsibility. Accept it or don’t, you’re the ones who live in them. There’s more.

Your air conditioned, smart phone equipped, EBT-financed “poverty” doesn’t wash to begin with, yet you’d have us believe poverty causes crime. There’s no payday for assault and rape and random killing. Police say 20% of your criminal violence is related to dope-dealing, okay, business disputes of a sort, but it says the rest of it is largely pro bono. We also notice you have a working knowledge of jury nullification and take pride in not “snitching”, typical gang behavior.

We say “what you think, you do. What you do, you are.” We know what you think—we hear it every waking minute. We know what you do. How could we not know what you are? Just so it gets said, crime causes poverty. It drives away productive people, their businesses and the opportunities you said you wanted. More bad news: you’re free to accuse them of anything you wish but they’re not coming back.

Schools haven’t been educating our kids for a long time. They’re too busy conjuring up new ways to teach yours, in fact, we’re beginning to think yours are the only ones who matter. There’s always some new scheme claiming dazzling success which, in the end, amounts to handing out the answers with the tests, or taking the annoying hard stuff out of the coursework, or entering unearned grades by hand. Whatever they’re doing they’re doing it wrong. Your kids are telling us, in every way they know how, they have neither the interest nor the inclination for academics. Perhaps we should listen. If what they want is “out” it’s worth considering and probably worth encouraging.

You tell us the schools have “failed to meet their needs.” And what are their needs, pray tell? Higher standards and tougher tests? Stricter rules and a dress code? Or some alternate universe where credit is earned for putting teachers in the ER, or for a string of abortions before the tenth grade? If you’d tell us what their needs are we’d at least know what needs we’re failing to meet. Until then we’ll mark it down for what it is, another lame excuse. They’re supposed to be schools, not day care or orphanages or theme parks.

You pester us with the “civil rights movement” of fifty years ago as though it happened last week, with tedious 1960s footage and cloying voice-overs, in an endless loop, like Groundhog Day, decade after decade. It’s understandable, you haven’t met any real resistance since those days. Breaking news: none of it matters any more, it all devolved into just another swindle, an extortion racket, “pay up or we’ll make a stink—and the bad optics are on you”.

Schools now teach something called White Privilege, which claims no overt act is necessary for us to be racist, in fact, absence of such acts is said to be direct evidence. It’s the “original sin” concept in a different wrapper, meaning our putative racism is bone deep and can’t be discharged by good works. Even so, they say we must atone in perpetuity for being white. They suggest we devote our lives in selfless service to you. No. Sorry. Whatever white privilege there may be, it isn’t enough. In fact, being subjected to White Privilege prattle is worth a couple of privileges.

Speaking of privilege, 60% of your college grads—and 20% of all of you—are employed by government. The intent is to create an artificial middle class of course, hence the trivial positions with imaginative titles and weighty salaries. In the lower reaches it’s the quota hires, typically unqualified. It’s a great offer. You pretend you’re doing something useful and we pretend to believe you. The rest of your grads are largely diversity directors, window dressing, teachers of dubious “studies” and improbable “histories”, and similar warehousing schemes for the otherwise unemployable. It’s as good as it’s ever going to get, except for those on the skinny end of the bell curve—for whom we have genuine, i.e., earned respect. You’d be a fool to leave it on the table, for as long as it lasts.

So here’s the deal. If you want to know what we really think of you, the answer is we don’t, unless you’re making yourself unavoidable or we’re cleaning up your latest mess. We can safely rely on you to make astonishingly irresponsible choices and blame us for the consequences. And you’ll demand we make good on them for you. We won’t take a chance on your sincerity ever again. Take it somewhere else, you have no credibility left with us. You’re a net liability, predictable to the point of surety. So we attend to our own lives and our own problems. It’s as it should be. We recommend it. As for you, frankly my dear, we don’t give a damn.

http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2015/06/frankly-my-dear-guest-post-from-ol-remus.html

flash
flash
June 14, 2015 10:45 am

After reading Ol’ Remus’ Dear Tyrone letter , you’re be ready to contemplate the great mystery of why the gifted programs in county school systems are sorely lacking in minority students.

Where are the minority gifted students in Sarasota and Manatee?

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20150609/ARTICLE/150609665/0/search

SSS
SSS
June 14, 2015 12:27 pm

Another social engineering program destined for the ash heap of history. It will cost billions before cooler heads prevail by saying, “This ain’t working.” Just like school busing.

Rise Up
Rise Up
June 14, 2015 1:22 pm

Stupid idea and it won’t work or be adopted.

Yet Obama will probably be looked on in 50 years as one of the best presidents. Why? Because by then the majority of the population will be latino/hispanic, and all their cousins/brothers/uncles/aunts will be here thanks to him and his progressive policies.

Of course, we know better…

Stucky
Stucky
June 14, 2015 1:29 pm

Also not an Onion pic …

License plates being rapidly scanned in Walmart parking lot by incognito surveillance vehicle

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Araven
Araven
June 14, 2015 1:58 pm

There are definite benefits to living in a white trash neighborhood. Nobody hassles you if you don’t mow your lawn. Nobody telling you what color to paint your house or what type of fence to put up. I’ll add this one to my list: Nobody putting up HUD housing next door.

All of you living in nice middle middle class or lower middle class neighborhoods thinking you’re off the hook be warned. This is Obama we’re talking about. Don’t be surprised when he classifies your neighborhood as “wealthier” so he can stick the HUD housing there instead of disturbing his rich buddies.

In the ’70s they built some very nice HUD “subsidized housing” in an area not too far from the lower middle class neighborhood that I lived in. It was a very nice neighborhood with clean, well kept houses and lawns and friendly neighbors. I’ll bet you all can guess how long the HUD housing stayed looking “very nice”. I’ll bet you all can guess how long it took before all my neighbors were keeping their doors, windows, and garages locked because of the drastic increase in crime. Does Obama really think things will turn out any different this time?

Russia Is Strong
Russia Is Strong
June 14, 2015 2:12 pm

Welcome to Yorba Linda, CA. Birth town of Richard M Nixon. An affluent city of I-really-don’t-know-how-many-but-I-can-tell-you-they’re-all-WHITE. Or were ….up till now.

Now Barack Hussein Obama wants to stick some low-income housing & the corresponding several hundred nigras right smack dab into the middle of it. People are all up in arms, but city officials can do nothing to stop it. They’ve been bought-out by millions in federal grants to push this through.

Bye, bye Yorba Linda!!!
Bye, by, Amerika!!

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
June 14, 2015 3:13 pm

This is why I never participate in the Census……..ever! They will hound you if you don’t send them something so I mail back the blank survey and include a handy letter explaining that more than one but less than ten humans live at the address in question and that since the govt has taught me that citizenship or legal status does not matter, it’s NONE OF THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS whether we are citizens and to just keep the welfare checks coming. They leave me alone till the next census or “community survey” comes out.

billy
billy
June 14, 2015 3:59 pm

When you say white trash do you mean trailer park .There is a trailer park about 5 miles from where I live and they are clean , well kept neighborhoods. All white for now.Good thing about these mobile home parks is that people own the homes and can buy the lot if they want.Mostly retired white people. So for now it still a good place to live.

bb
bb
June 14, 2015 4:00 pm

Bb is Billy ,Damn busted.

Araven
Araven
June 14, 2015 4:35 pm

Naw, we’re not fancy enough fo a trailer park. Besides, they have too many rules.

Araven
Araven
June 14, 2015 4:45 pm

Not fancy enough “for” a trailer park. Too humid, my keys are sticking. One of the neighbors is a trailer on its own lot. Others are houses or camps that haven’t been well maintained. Back last winter I noticed that one of the LESS disreputable properties had a boarded up window. My honest reaction was “isn’t that nice”! The new plywood looked so much better than the broken glass stuffed with rags.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr
June 14, 2015 4:56 pm

Start by integrating all the security guarded gated communities and see how far O’bastard gets.

starfcker
starfcker
June 14, 2015 6:48 pm

Be brave, comrades. January 20th 2017 is closer than you think.

gm
gm
June 14, 2015 7:16 pm

omg 80 % of the population is absolutely tired of negroes crap .Turn off the Talmud vision and LOOK at what is really going on !!Before you downvote me read your history ! Get rid of your indoctrination and learn that this reality set before us is someone else s agenda !