AMERICAN COMPASS
In Defense of Picket Fences
by Rachel Bovard
September 3, 2020
…Obama administration HUD officials created and implemented AFFH [Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing] in 2015. And they did this very quietly, for they were well aware that AFFH was radical in its intent, and that its ultimate outcome would prove extremely controversial. Indeed, although AFFH was billed as an attempt to foster “economic integration,” it was actually a deliberate effort to re-engineer America’s suburbs according to the federal government’s preferred and preconceived racial and ethnic composition. The rule sought to use racial quotas, densifying housing and creating “little downtowns” in the suburbs with business districts built around transportation centers. READ MORE