Bailey Guns
10-21-2013, 13:39
If this doesn't convince you the federal government is out of control, like a ship without a rudder, nothing will:
Arizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically -- for the deaf.
A 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had virtually no affordable housing for the deaf. So the federal government helped build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apartment building in Tempe, Ariz., designed specifically for the deaf. Ninety-percent of the units are currently occupied by deaf and deaf-blind seniors.
But now, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development says Apache ASL Trails violates civil rights law -- because it shows a preference for the hearing-impaired. "A preference or priority based on a particular diagnosis or disability and excluding others with different disabilities is explicitly prohibited by HUD's Section 504 regulations," says a HUD memo about the project. "There is no legal authority contained in any of Apache Trails funding to permit such a priority or preference."
SOURCE (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/21/feds-try-to-eliminate-housing-for-deaf-at-complex-built-for-hearing-impaired/)
How hard can it be to solve this? The HUD secretary tells his people to "make this stupidity go away" and it should go away. But no... I suspect the inertia is too strong and I also suspect no one wants to accept the responsibility. The buck stops no where.
My God. For some reason this is about as maddening as anything I've heard of come out of a federal bureaucracy. I am so sick of the federal government I could just scream.
Arizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically -- for the deaf.
A 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had virtually no affordable housing for the deaf. So the federal government helped build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apartment building in Tempe, Ariz., designed specifically for the deaf. Ninety-percent of the units are currently occupied by deaf and deaf-blind seniors.
But now, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development says Apache ASL Trails violates civil rights law -- because it shows a preference for the hearing-impaired. "A preference or priority based on a particular diagnosis or disability and excluding others with different disabilities is explicitly prohibited by HUD's Section 504 regulations," says a HUD memo about the project. "There is no legal authority contained in any of Apache Trails funding to permit such a priority or preference."
SOURCE (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/21/feds-try-to-eliminate-housing-for-deaf-at-complex-built-for-hearing-impaired/)
How hard can it be to solve this? The HUD secretary tells his people to "make this stupidity go away" and it should go away. But no... I suspect the inertia is too strong and I also suspect no one wants to accept the responsibility. The buck stops no where.
My God. For some reason this is about as maddening as anything I've heard of come out of a federal bureaucracy. I am so sick of the federal government I could just scream.