HUD has released the final rule entitled, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. This will impact Georgetown through the city's participation in "Urban County Entitlement for the Community Development Block Grant Program". The city renewed their participation in this program, which is administered by Williamson county, at the June 23, 2015 council meeting fora the 2016-2018 time period.
It should be recognized that this new HUD rule is consistent with and supportive of Agenda 21, the United Nations endorsed program to pack people tightly into cities and get them out of their cars.
In the first step, HUD will force municipalities to collect detailed information on the racial, ethnic and class makeup of households within the city. This data, ostensibly will be used to facilitate planning. The data is intended to assist with the AFH(Assessment of Fair Housing) and addressing fair housing issues. It will address issues including patterns of integration and segregation, racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty, discrimination, persons with disabilities, and access to employment, transportation, education, and other factors that may assist with fair housing choice.
NOTICE the inclusion of employment, transportation, education and other factors to provide information to coerce cities into meeting Federal government requirements.
We need to have our city councilpersons get Georgetown out of HUD Community Development Block Grants at the moment we see a requirement for data collection as described above.
There are other Federal initiatives, like the Sustainable Communities Initiative that is also geared to usurp local control over housing, transportation, education, etc. More about that later.
Additional information about the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule can be found here: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420896/massive-government-overreach-obamas-affh-rule-out-stanley-kurtz
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