Fact check: 'WE ARE NOT ABLAZE,' Portland fire department says after Trump claim

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We’ve had low income housing complexes in our neighborhood. Yes, it would be hard to say they do not attract crime and I do not say that lightly.
 
Victoria33 said:
We’ve had low income housing complexes in our neighborhood. Yes, it would be hard to say they do not attract crime and I do not say that lightly.
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A few decades ago, my wife and I delivered Thanksgiving dinners (not cooked) to people in need in our community.

We went to some places that were “low income housing” that we had no idea were there. This is a community with an incredibly low crime rate.

So, maybe my experience is different than yours.
 
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rescinded the 2015 rule last week as Secretary Ben Carson said the rule was “unworkable and ultimately a waste of time for localities to comply with.”

It will be replaced by a new rule that reduces the burden of local jurisdictions to prove that they are actively taking steps to address historical patterns of racial segregation in order to qualify for HUD financing.

"Washington has no business dictating what is best to meet your local community’s unique needs,” Carson said.
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Guess Ben Carson is a dog whistle racist.
 
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Fair Housing Rule: What the AFFH is an how its repeal affects Philly.

President Donald Trump repealed this Obama-era rule. But what did the AFFH do, and what does its repeal mean for places like Philadelphia? Here is a basic overview.
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The act already required federal agencies to act “in a manner affirmatively to further” the purposes of the law, so you had to not just make sure that you weren’t discriminating, but that you were working proactively to make your municipality more equitable. And the AFFH rule added accountability, which didn’t exist before, to make that point enforceable.

Essentially, the Obama administration made that part of the act possible to enforce, said Olatunde C. Johnson, a law professor at Columbia Law School. “The 2015 rule made action around affirmatively furthering fair housing more precise and meaningful.”

According to the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, the AFFH rule worked by creating “a community-centered process to analyze patterns and causes of segregation as well as neighborhood disparities,” and by having jurisdictions looking for federal funding “set actionable goals to promote greater integration and equity.”

As a result, said Vincent J. Reina, assistant professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, the rule is meant to get municipalities to think more proactively and develop policies that address discrimination and segregation in housing.

But here’s what it didn’t do: It did not control the use of local dollars, or local zoning; that was still up to the municipalities.
 
He’s a brain surgeon.

I’m not sure urban development and housing are in his background.
 
F_Marturana said:
He’s a brain surgeon.

I’m not sure urban development and housing are in his background.
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Oh, and guess what, he lived in areas of Detroit? Maybe those were not affluent neighborhoods. So, maybe it is in his background.

He grew up in those neighborhoods probably. There’s some movie on it, pretty good.
 
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Victoria33 said:
you would say that anything different would make other people and/or that policy racist. Wow. And would make such an accusation. Wow.
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LOL. YOU said “We’ve had low income housing complexes in our neighborhood. Yes, it would be hard to say they do not attract crime and I do not say that lightly.”

I said we’ve had low income housing near us, and didn’t know, and that we have a low crime rate.

How you drew the conclusion about racism from that I don’t know. I said nothing about race.

I think I’m offended by your accusation.
 
At first Carson rejected the appointment, again, he grew up in those areas of Detroit that sound pretty bad or would a degree from Harvard in social studies qualify him more?

 
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At first Carson rejected the appointment, again, he grew up in those areas of Detroit that sound pretty bad or would a degree from Harvard in social studies qualify him more?

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He’s a pretty smart guy. There’s a saying, “you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to…”
 
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Did you also agree…
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I haven’t enough information on the event to make a judgement.
But that is irrelevant anyway.
Cnn tried to pass off these riots as peaceful protests. They have proven to be anything but.
Just another case of fake news peddled by this network. And another reason they have no credibility.

If they said they lay claim to a story, my first reaction is disbelief in everything they say.
 
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I choose not to.
I haven’t enough information and know better than to go off half cocked.

I do, however, have sufficient information about the subject at hand.
There were riots. These rioters set fires.
Cnn claims it a peaceful protest.

Therefore they have no credibility.

Now cnn claims some official made statements directly against Trump. No one else has corroborated the story.

I disbelieve the news story.
 
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It has nothing to do, of course, with the fact that the subject at hand plays into your ideology and the subject at Charlottesville does not, eh?
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As I already said, I have insufficient information on the event.

Is there something specific you are trying to accuse me of?
 
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Good movie. He sure helped Johns Hopkins earn its good reputation.
 
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A degree in urban engineering would make Carson more qualified. 🤷‍♀️

Neurosurgery is a different field of study.
 
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