Can you imagine low-income housing being built in the middle of your neighborhood?

Starting in October 2014, the Obama administration via the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be empowered to force local communities to build evenly distributed neighborhoods based on income.

Left unchecked, the impact of this regulation will be felt nationwide. If your community accepts federal funding, and chances are it does, these federally imposed housing quotas are coming to your neighborhood. This has nothing to do with housing discrimination, which has been illegal since the 1960s. Local rules only determine what can be built where, not who can live in a community, and yet the government believes your neighborhood is “discriminatory” because it has nice homes to live in.

The House of Representatives has already acted, prohibiting implementation of the regulation. Now, it is the Senate’s turn to act. Senator Mike Lee has introduced a bill to stop Obama and HUD from imposing high-density, low-income housing on suburban neighborhoods. Please urge Senator Mark Udall to sign the attached pledge, “Defund HUD high-density, low-income income housing quotas” and to support the Lee amendment to preserve local decisions over community development.

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