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Does Richmond Need a Grant?

There will be a public forum on Saturday June 21, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM at Veterans Memorial Hall in Richmond to discuss what should happen to the Richmond Four Corners site.

The site is privately owned so we wonder why and how the regional planners are going to jump in and get involved with their grant money?


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SNHPC Meeting Agenda on GSF Program

The Southern NH Planning Commission will meet on June 19th 2014 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM at the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission offices, 438 Dubuque Street, Manchester, NH 03102 to talk about Prioritizing of Action on the Granite State Future program.

If any of you choose to attend please send a report back to us at info@granitestatefutures.org

http://www.snhpc.org/pdf/GSF_Agenda_061914.pdf

HUD Out of Control Creating Dossiers on Homeowners

A new National Mortgage Database Program will be launched as part of a joint venture by the FHFA and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It will collect intimate personal information on every mortgage holder in the United States. It is a growth in government that could and will one day be used against the individual.

The database will collect information on “first-lien single-family mortgages in existence any time from January 1998 forward.” The news release states that “it is to be used to support the agencies’ policy making and research efforts and help regulators better understand emerging mortgage and housing market trends in this evolving and changing finance market.”

Our personal information is all over the government computers and they are unreliable keepers of that information.

The April notice in the Federal Register informs that the database expansion will include numerous data points: a mortgage owner’s name, address, Social Security number, all credit card and other loan information and account balances, entire credit history -including delinquent payments, late payments, minimum payments, high account balances and credit scores.

The two agencies will then assemble “household demographic data,” including racial and ethnic data, gender, marital status, religion, education, employment history, military status, household composition, the number of wage earners and a family’s total wealth and assets.

This is the same government that is “mapping” every neighborhood in the country to reallocate resources from those who have to those who have-not in a grand wealth redistribution scheme.

Mr. Obama has ordered the mapping of all neighborhoods across America, in every town and in every city, so he can redistribute the assets of wealthier neighborhoods to poorer neighborhoods, particularly into minority neighborhoods.

He is using a HUD housing rule which will set up a long-term plan for redistributing resources.

HUD plans to provide data for every neighborhood in the country listing the access minorities have to local assets such as schools, jobs, transportation,and other neighborhood resources that help bring people into the middle class.

The plan will then develop long-term solutions to help ‘people gain access to different neighborhoods,’…’channeling investments into under-served areas.’ The mapping tool may be used to guide development and zoning decisions as two examples.

It won’t make people productive but it will set up a system for stealing from those who are.

Government Expands Its Power Into Hundreds of Millions of American Homes

A Chicken Coop for All

“President Obama seeks to use the power of the national government to create communities of a certain kind, each having what the federal government deems an appropriate mix of economic, racial, and ethnic diversity.

Clearly, the Obama administration’s interest is not in combating discrimination in housing; its interest is imposing a preordained view of the proper racial and ethnic mix for neighborhoods.”

To that end he has created the AFFH rule; “affirmatively furthering fair housing”.

Powerline blog has a two part article:

Obama moves to impose his vision of how we should live, Part One

Obama moves to impose his vision of how we should live, Part Two

Read more about where we stand on AFFH…

Obama will wait until after election to impose his vision of how we should live

Alert: New Ipswich Charrette

Residents of New Ipswich you are about to be Delphi’d!

If you don’t want HUD making decisions about zoning in your town…
If you don’t want to lose more property rights…
If you don’t want taxes to go sky-high to support urbanized areas in your town…
If you don’t want William Ayers and the UN running your schools…

…you MUST get to this event.

The only way to ensure high community participation — one of the key components of the charrette — is to have a specific goal. The Rindge charrette fell through the cracks after three years of work when the town at-large objected to the charrette’s inclusion in the town’s Master Plan, and had it removed in a resounding town-wide vote this March. In a recent interview, Rindge Select Board Chair Roberta Oeser said that there was nothing wrong with the charrette process itself. It only wants a broad base of participation in order for it to be effective, and prevent the kind of backlash that Rindge experienced. New Ipswich Select Board members did not seem confident they could gather broad-based participation when they decided to move forward with the process earlier this month.

A charrette is an opportunity for a larger part of the community to be directly involved in the future of a town. And it’s not as time consuming as devoting several years to being a member of a town board. If residents can find the time to take two days out of their schedule to sit down alongside town officials and put their ideas to paper, they can have an impact on the future of what New Ipswich might look like.

The residents can have an impact on the future of their town by virtue of VOTING at the town meeting. They should not have to fight off master plans created by the ‘visions’ of the American Planning Association, the EPA, HUD and the DOT, all influenced by some UN utopian dream.

The charrette process in New Ipswich is planned for September 19 and 20. The process of a charrette is intended to sway the public, not hear their concerns.

The group that will be leading the session is Plan NH.

Plan NH, a NON governmental organization, is involved just like it was in Rindge. There is nothing on the New Ipswich website about it as to the details, yet. But you have to ask yourself, why does the town have to pay a non-profit PR firm to help residents make decisions? Why come between residents and the town meeting?

We suggest New Ipswich residents find out about this before September 19-20th and plan to attend.

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Contact Larry Cleveland for more info.