The House of Representatives has approved an amendment offered by Arizona Representative Paul Gosar to the Transportation and Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill that would prevent HUD from spending any resources on its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program. As previously noted, this program is basically an attempt to use fair housing laws to force suburbs to rezone land for higher-density housing.
As described by Stanley Kurtz, under regulations drafted by HUD, suburban communities of single-family homes that do not have a perfectly balanced racial composition would be de facto guilty of housing discrimination. To remedy this, such communities would be required to rezone for multifamily housing.
Ironically, the rules implicitly make a racist assumption that racial minorities prefer multifamily housing. On a per-square-foot basis, single-family homes are less expensive to build than multifamily, so the rules could have required construction of smaller homes. But, of course, the real goal isn’t racial integration; it’s increasing densities.
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Supporters of the AFFH rules include non-profit low-income housing groups. But critics point out that such groups, which filed two-thirds of the comments in favor of the rules, have an inherent conflict of interest since many of them get most of their budgets from HUD grants.
Last week, the Antiplanner noted that an “apparent weakening” of the Tea Party in recent elections was leading Republicans in Congress to drift away from fiscally conservative principles. This week, the Tea Party came roaring back with its defeat of Virginia Congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary election.
The House vote on the Gosar amendment may be partly a response to Cantor’s defeat by Tea Party member and economist Dave Brat. Brat will face a Democrat named Jack Trammell in the general election this November. But the question for now is whether the House will stand up to Senate Democrats, who will no doubt try to keep the AFFH program funded. Passage of a transportation appropriations bill is supposedly needed before the August recess to maintain funds for highways and transit.
In a fair world, this de-funding would be a great step forward.
Unfortunately, there are few more corrupt and venal agencies than HUD. HUD will simply use other funds to push whatever agenda it wants – and will use its powers to raise funds through fines and penalties if more money is needed.