ANALYSIS: Biden Admin Working to Bring Racial Equity to Towns, Suburbs

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HUD says local communities must take action to โ€˜affirmatively furtherโ€™ diversity

Actions by the Biden administration to expand racial equity are making their way into Americaโ€™s suburbs and towns.

The Department of Housing and Development (HUD) is implementing a new program that would compel any town, city, or county that accepts federal housing grants to โ€œproactively take meaningful actions to overcome patterns of segregation, promote fair housing choice, eliminate disparities in opportunities, and foster inclusive communities free from discrimination.โ€

The program, calledย Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housingย (AFFH), is a reinstatement ofย HUDโ€™s 2015 AFFH Rule, originally introduced by the Obama administration butย repealed in 2020ย by the Trump administration, whichย criticizedย the policyโ€™s โ€œonerous burden on localities and federal overreach into local housing policy.โ€

Under the Biden policy, โ€œin order to qualify for community development block grant funds, [communities] have to prepare and submit a plan to demonstrate that they are โ€˜affirmatively furthering fair housing,โ€™โ€ Howard Husock, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of โ€œThe Poor Side of Town,โ€ a critique of American housing policies, told The Epoch Times. โ€œThey will have to pass muster with regulators at HUD, who will review the steps theyโ€™re taking and decide whether they measure up.โ€

Among the things that HUD will look for, Mr. Husock said, is if low-income housing โ€œis being built in ‘high-opportunity neighborhoods’; is it being built close to high-performing schools; is close to libraries or supermarkets; with public facilities being located in ways that best serve those of a low income.โ€

According to a statement by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, โ€œHardworking families are blocked from purchasing homes because of the color of their skin.โ€

Theย 1968 Fair Housing Actย was enacted following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or family status.

However, a clause in the Act that directs the government to โ€œaffirmatively further fair housingโ€ has been used by the Biden to expand enforcement beyond the transaction of buying or renting a home, intending to compelling municipalities to create equity plans for diversifying communities.ย 

Byย Kevin Stocklin

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