Rep. Gosar on New HUD Fair Housing Regulation: Obama's Biggest Overreach Yet

Statement

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new regulation today known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH):

"Today's announced new AFFH regulation marks President Obama's most aggressive attempt yet to force his utopian ideology on American communities disguised under the banner of "fairness'. This new Washington mandate has nothing to do with race, as housing discrimination has been illegal for more than 40 years. This overreaching new regulation is an attempt to extort communities into giving up control of local zoning decisions and reengineer the makeup of our neighborhoods. Just as the president has used the DOJ, IRS and DHS as a political weapon, he has now expanded his arsenal to include HUD as a way of punishing neighborhoods that don't fall in line with his liberal agenda.

"The House of Representatives twice voted in favor of amendments I introduced that sought to protect local zoning decisions and rejected this intrusive Washington mandate. I will continue to fight this misguided regulation and do everything in my power to ensure not a single penny is appropriated to this big government takeover of America's neighborhoods."

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