Considering all the evidence that has come before us regarding the way HUD is determined to reshape our towns and cities in the vision of the federal government and international community, Rindge residents have every right to be worried.
This article in the Kenne Sentinel Source states:
“Some town residents are worried that the $24,820 of grant money, which comes from the federal office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), opens the door for a federal takeover of the small town.
Rindge officials, as well as officials from HUD and N.H. Housing Authority say many of the concerns are unfounded, and the townspeople of Rindge can still vote down any proposed changes to zoning laws at the March town meeting.
“As far as it (zoning changes) being forced on communities, it still has to be passed at the local level,” said Rindge Selectman Roberta Oeser. “I hope the people realize that they’re the ones that get the final say.””
While this is true, most people do not understand where the money is coming from and why it is being offered, and will simply rubber stamp the zoning or planning board ‘recommendations’ at town meeting time without having examined the consequences of acceptance.
They also stated: “Town selectmen accepted the $24,820 grant in April of this year, after competing with other towns across the state for the money. The town’s money comes from about $500,000 HUD gave N.H. Housing Authority.”
The Regional Planning Commissions get money from HUD, with the Nashua RPC being the lead group on something called the Granite State Future project — a ‘sustainable communities initiative’. To support this is against the NH GOP platform. Each town is subject to inclusion in one of the nine regional planning commissions (unelected boards) which doles out the money to each own. They did not have to compete for it, but were told they needed to follow these ‘advisory-only’ suggestions. However, once a contract is signed with HUD, that is where the trouble begins.
The article goes on to say “The purpose of the grant is to help the town’s planning board make recommendations on zoning changes and commercial development. The planning board hopes to make lot sizes smaller to encourage a tight-knit village area in West Rindge.”
This is true, among other things it hopes to change. The term ‘tight-knit village’ refers to compact housing which would be utilized in the future when all residents are herded into the cities and away from rural development. This arrangement is a regional goal. Another goal, stated in writing, is to remove all local control on such matters in favor of decisions made by these regional government boards. It is NOT necessary for towns to ‘find the money’ elsewhere for a project they do not need or want if they haven not signed onto HUD, or is it? You cannot have it both ways. The terms ‘advisory’ and ‘voluntary’, always being claimed by the RPCs, do not seem to jive with lawsuits however… which brings us to the Westchester case.
The paper and Ben Frost are also WRONG about the Westchester case.
“Much of the fear expressed in Rindge comes from the example set by U.S. v. Westchester County, a case where Westchester County, N.Y., was sued by the federal government for not fulfilling the terms of the municipality’s contract with HUD.
The county of Westchester was accused by the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York Inc. of segregating the county by preventing low-to-moderate-income housing in certain communities. The county was also accused of failing to take action to change zoning laws to be in compliance with federal fair housing regulations.”
This is completely untrue. Westchester complied IN FULL with the agreement to which they had signed. HUD merely wanted to go a step further and require MORE.
Westchester fought back and won.
HUD has admitted in various documents we have posted here on GSF(s) that it seeks to change the economic and racial demographics of an area by imposing new zoning laws that would result in the forced mixing in the aforementioned two areas. Westchester is a middle-to-upper class area and no one is barred from living there due to race. Anyone who can afford to live there can buy a home there. But that was not good enough for the meddlers at HUD. They wanted to make an ‘example’ of the town of Westchester, and force it to completely trash all zoning laws in favor of their redistributive laws.
Gregory Carson, a NH ‘republican’, and HUD Field Office Director for New Hampshire, spoke incorrectly when he said “It does not apply to Rindge or any town in New Hampshire…. No one in New Hampshire has defrauded the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Wow! To suggest that Westchester ‘defrauded’ the federal government of ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ would likely come as a great surprise to Rob Astorino. Carson then later admitted that “the language of the contracts are the same whether the grant is going to Rindge or to New York City.”
The fact is, once a contract with HUD is signed, the voters have no say in the matter. Zoning must be changed to comply with the ‘outcomes’ that HUD desires.
Read and watch Rob Astorino tell the TRUE story of what happened in Westchester, NY.
It is just a matter of time before it happens here.
