Big deal: Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. details the Fair Housing rule at a recent speech given to the NAACP
[From article]
The goal is to help communities understand "fair housing barriers" and "establish clear goals" for "improving integrated living patterns and overcoming historic patterns of segregation."
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HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said "the American Dream still isn't within equal reach of all communities. He lamented the lack of diversity in America's boardrooms, schools, and the nation's 'strongest neighborhoods.'"
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Under the proposed rule, the neighborhood data provided by HUD will be used to evaluate patterns of integration and segregation, racial and ethnic concentrations of poverty, and access to "valuable community assets." HUD wants to know if existing laws and policies -- such as zoning, financing, infrastructure planning and transportation -- create, perpetuate or alleviate segregation.
Unapologetically Harvard University segregates its housing portfolio prohibiting non Harvard affiliates from renting units in their buildings. Their response was "Are we the only ones who do that?" Under an agreement with the Cambridge City Council and long term now retired Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy (who now works for Harvard doing fund raising), Harvard was allowed beginning in 1995 to stop permitting non Harvard people from renting Harvard property. They agreed to not evict any non Harvard person in place in 1995, from their premises without cause. Nonetheless they did harass some women tenants who left their belongings and their premises behind when threatened by Harvard's real estate thugs. In 2013 Harvard's real estate segregationists are now moving all older tenants into one building segregating them further. This is not only an example of how Harvard officials dissemble about diversity, but also it is contrary to this new effort by HUD. The only problem is that local officials, state officials and federal officials seldom hold Harvard accountable to laws which others must obey or be penalized. Harvard appears to have a constitutional exemption which allows them to ignore inconvenient laws. They have no shame and exercise their old boys and new girls networks in government agencies to thwart the goals of the law abiding minority of elected officials.
In his wonderful 2005 book of five award winning essays and speeches, Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto[Review in progress here]
http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2013/07/dumbing-us-down-john-taylor-gatto-book.html
explains how one element of of making students into conformists is to segregate them by age into classes for their entire 12 or 13 years of attending schools. It is one more way that Harvard helps to divide Americans, joining Obama's effort to do so by race, religion and ethnicity. Harvard continues that effort in housing their students, faculty and staff. Harvard University police thugs should be recognized for responding to this post by increasing the amount and intensity of the daily harassment they provide to me in their building. The night after I posted this my sleep was disturbed every hour or less increased from the usual every two hours. Great way to add to the misery of the world. Is that one more public service Harvard University provides to the world?
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/huds-new-fair-housing-rule-establishes-diversity-data-every-neighborhood-us
HUD's New 'Fair Housing' Rule Establishes Diversity Data for Every Neighborhood in U.S.
July 22, 2013 - 10:54 AM
By Susan Jones
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[From article]
The U.S. government is going to log the diversity of every neighborhood in the U.S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374226/HUD-plans-diversity-neighborhood-proposed-new-fair-housing-rule.html
HUD to detail the racial diversity of every neighborhood in America as part of proposed new 'fair housing' rule
Meant to bring the Fair Housing Act, passed in 1968, into the 21st century
Will help residents, planners and investors target opportunities for growth, advancement and investment
Daily Mail (UK)
By Ryan Gorman
PUBLISHED: 15:45 EST, 22 July 2013 | UPDATED: 17:13 EST, 22 July 2013
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