Rep. Gosar Passes Amendment Stopping "Obama's Assault on the Suburbs"

Statement

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the House of Representatives successfully approved his amendment prohibiting HUD from implementing its proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule. The amendment was successfully attached to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015:

"I am pleased the House of Representatives recognized the dangers of this overreach and stood with me to "Stop Obama's Assault on the Suburbs".

"American citizens should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to neighborhood engineering and gerrymandering at the behest of an overreaching federal government. Local zoning decisions should be made by local communities, not bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

"If allowed, this new rule by the Administration would result in increased local taxes, depressed property values and cause further harm to impoverished communities that are in dire need of community development block grants.

"The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is attempting to create a thinly veiled set of rules and regulations which forces communities to conform to the utopian dreams of an ideological administration or face losing out on billions of dollars in grant money."

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