Trump Removes Obama AFFH Rule

[Will Ross]

I live in a nice neighborhood in Bronzeville, Chicago and there is section 8 housing surrounded by expensive condos and homes and they don't cause any issues. fukk out of here with this black pathology shyt. Concentrated poverty causes crime not poor people.

Yes and a section 8 complex is going to have crime even if the surrounding area don’t.

 

[Pure Water]

But voting doesn’t matter huh?

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

I knew there would be some blowback in this thread but I’m fine with that. My point was that owning a home or any type of real estate is the main asset in creating wealth.

As black people we struggle with the idea of generational wealth. So I’d like for all of us to own more property with values going up, versus assuming that we are only capable of living in low income housing and have no ownership.

Lots of developers get federal money to build housing. The rule was to make sure that those who are getting the money use it in a way that doesn't only benefit rich white people. It makes them take into account historical barriers and find ways to rectify the damage done by them.

I don't know how you can be against this.

 

[Luck]

This is basically pushing classism which is without a doubt more often than not, tied to racism...

“keep y’all low income ass on that side of the tracks “

People with common sense: “that’s promoting racist policy “

Then they reply “What color are people with low income...”

This clown is doing his job for his MAGA constituency. They know exactly what this means, they administer the programs so they have control over who lives where but will never admit it outright.

 

[Texas2step]

the high income suburbs with good school systems that these programs target are mostly white. Black suburbs suffer the same disinvestment and financial instability as all black communities.

Both sides are bad

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Is he talking about the blacks? Gotta be the blacks right???

Edit: Maybe he's talking about short people
Edit 2: it gotta be about short black people

 

[EBK String]

Yes and a section 8 complex is going to have crime even if the surrounding area don’t.

No it won't.

 

[3rdWorld]

The President Just Went Beyond a Dogwhistle With His Suburbs Doomsday Talk
Jack Holmes
July 29, 2020, 8:31 AM

Photo credit: Alex Wong - Getty Images

From Esquire

It's hard to shake the feeling that his complete mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the few things the president couldn't squirm out of. Donald Trump has never enjoyed the support of a majority of the American people—in fact, his approval rating has rarely soared beyond 43 percent. But this era has also proven that a big chunk of the public does not care about, say, corruption: the president is blatantly monetizing his office, as his businesses continually take money from people who may seek changes in public policy from the government he leads. It never much moved the needle. Did the family separations have any long-term affect on Trump's standing? The tax cut for corporations and the rich? The attempt to strip people of their healthcare with no replacement? Without the pandemic failure, he would probably still be the favorite to win re-election thanks to our incredibly dumb mechanism for electing presidents. After all, no one even pretends he might win more citizens' votes.

More than that, These Times have reinforced the power of racist appeals in American life. Take, for instance, the president's new push to generate a racial panic in The Suburbs now that he's hemorrhaging support there. Trump has been banging on about how Joe Biden is a puppet of the socialist left, a theory related to his hints that Biden has lost a step. (There's some merit to this, but it's offset by the fact that Trump now spends his time bragging that he passed a dementia test.) He's now taken to suggesting Biden will destroy the suburbs, which is something between a dogwhistle and a wolf howl. Trump rolled this out once again during a Facebook "telerally" on Tuesday night.



This is not even subtext.
"A beautiful suburb of Iowa" will be destroyed by Cory Booker, a Black senator from Newark—not to mention Obama—who will bring Certain People in to destroy property values and "increase crime substantially." This is just out-and-out racism, the not-in-my-backyard impulse all 'roided up. It's tied to Biden's support for policies that would ease the stranglehold of single-family zoning, which keeps property values artificially high and ultimately proves exclusionary, limiting social mobility. Normally, proponents of the status quo would focus their arguments on protecting the character of our neighborhoods or claiming that Biden wants to build a hi-rise next to your picket fence. Trump, as usual, says the quiet part out loud.

But perhaps the most disturbing part is how effective this might be if voters did not have far more pressing concerns—like, say, the global pandemic that's killed 150,000 Americans on Trump's watch, or the accompanying economic cataclysm, or the mass movement for racial justice following the killing of George Floyd, a movement which enjoys strong majority support among the public. But that's the thing: white folks have broadly jumped on board with fighting racism in policing and the criminal justice system, which is good, but it does not require much sacrifice in how they live their individual lives. It is, believe it or not, the easier part. The harder thing is changing the structures under all of this.

And that's why this rhetoric may still work, to some extent. Because it's not just conservatives who like the current system of housing—and, inevitably, school—segregation. (In 2018, 50 years after the Fair Housing Act, the Washington Post found residential segregation persists, falling particularly hard on Black Americans, though the suburbs had begun to diversify.) There are plenty of "I'm-as-liberal-as-can-be" white folks who talk like this when the doors are closed, and who make decisions in their personal and political lives based on it. It's the strain of white liberalism that Jordan Peele brought to an absurd and horrifying extreme with Bradley Whitford's Dean Armitage in Get Out.

This is another chapter in the book very few people actually want to read: Confronting Systemic Racism Will Not Be Fun and You Will Probably Have to Make Real Sacrifices in Your Personal Life. Long title, I know.

 

[Rekkapryde]

all i know is that when Biden gets elected, this shyt better be overturned.

 

[3rdWorld]

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[Dr. Acula]

Trump internal polling must reflect what public polling shows which is that his support among the suburbs are plummetting. This is a good sign even if his motivations and actions are despicable. Because, he is trying to reshore his support among suburban voters by going to the tried and true and really all he has left which is dog whistling racism.

 

[Humble (Not) Mike Tyson]

@Malcolm SeXXX
@Savvir
@IGSaint12
@jwinfield
@Gold

This isn't an Obama law.

Lyndon Johnson created this in 1968.

Currently, black home-ownership is worst than it was before in 1968, when the Fair Housing Act was signed.

This has been the case for atleast the last ten years (2010-2020).

But, didn't care when Obama didn't do shyt for black people losing their homes, but, bailed out the banks.

But, now we can lose our minds over a program that didn't work for a few reasons when someone tells us it's "Obama's Law."

It's apparent Trump is probably the worst president of our lifetimes, but, ya'll find yourselves only able to compare Obama to him.

fukk Trump. And fukk ya'll.

2019:

These Five Facts Reveal the Current Crisis in Black Homeownership

2018:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...it-was-when-housing-discrimination-was-legal/

2017:

Black Homeownership: How Do We Fix What’s Wrong? | Prosperity Now

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

I’m gonna be hella on this one

As someone who has personally seen neighborhoods completely ruined due to nikkas coming in and destroying everything.

nikkas come in with 7 adults living in one house, parking cars in the grass, and playing music all night. It’s not the people themselves so much as the mentality they bring. Everything is treated with little value. Y’all need to be honest, most of us worked hard as hell to get away from all of that.

 

[Will Ross]

No it won't.

Things don’t charge for poor people just because you put them in a nicer area.

 

[UpAndComing]

So instead of reaching to the country/redneck whites, he also wants to get the suburban whites to get on his side