Rep. Gosar Introduces Bill to End Obama's War on the American Suburbs

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after introducing the Local Zoning and Property Rights Protection Act of 2017 which would end the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) regulation known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH):

"The AFFH rule marks President Obama's most aggressive attempt yet to force his utopian ideology on American communities disguised under the banner of "fairness'. This overreaching mandate 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 used the DOJ, IRS and DHS as a political weapon, he has now expanded his arsenal to include the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a way of punishing neighborhoods that don't fall in line with his liberal agenda of federally mandated demographics. No president, Republican or Democrat, has the right to dictate where Americans are allowed to live and it is up to Congress to rein in this authority on behalf of the people we represent. This is one of countless rules that President Obama can take with him when he leaves office in 8 days."

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Senate Companion version of this legislation today and released a statement saying, "Every American should be free to choose where to live, and every community should be free to zone its neighborhoods and compete for new residents according to its distinct values. We don't need a National Zoning Board. Washington should let Americans govern local. A better debate would be about how Americans could better spend the money that is wasted every year by the dysfunctional Community Development Block Grant Program."

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