HUD withholding $80M from Los Angeles

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HUD withholding $80M from Los Angeles

Jazz ShawPosted at 9:31 am on July 21, 2019

Is this another sign of the ongoing turf war between the White House and California or just business as usual at the Department of Housing and Urban Development? There’s a bit of a face-off going on this week between HUD Secretary Ben Carson and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. It involves $80 million in grant money that was slated for the City of a Million Rats, designated to be used for the development of affordable housing, but now the cash is being put on hold. The reason? Los Angeles has been repeatedly found in violation of rules requiring their housing projects to be fully accessible to residents with disabilities. (LA Times)

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/07/21/hud-withholding-80m-los-angeles/

[Maj. Bill Martin]

HUD withholding $80M from Los Angeles

Jazz ShawPosted at 9:31 am on July 21, 2019

Is this another sign of the ongoing turf war between the White House and California or just business as usual at the Department of Housing and Urban Development? There’s a bit of a face-off going on this week between HUD Secretary Ben Carson and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. It involves $80 million in grant money that was slated for the City of a Million Rats, designated to be used for the development of affordable housing, but now the cash is being put on hold. The reason? Los Angeles has been repeatedly found in violation of rules requiring their housing projects to be fully accessible to residents with disabilities. (LA Times)

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/07/21/hud-withholding-80m-los-angeles/

Ha!  That's how you do it.

You cannot legally withhold all federal funds from a state/locality just because they designate themselves a "sanctuary state/city", and there are good constitutional reasons for that.  But, you can legally withhold specific funds from a state/locality if those funds are supposed to go to a specific program with which the state/locality is not in compliance.  So...being nitpicky works.

[Hoodat]

It involves $80 million in grant money that was slated for the City of a Million Rats, designated to be used for the development of affordable housing, but now the cash is being put on hold. The reason? Los Angeles has been repeatedly found in violation of rules requiring their housing projects to be fully accessible to residents with disabilities. (LA Times)

If only they would do this will all other forms of federal aid.  When Los Angeles is found in violation of using food stamp money for illegals, they should have all food stamp money cut off.  And when they are found in violation of using federal education grants to educate illegals, they should have all education money cut off.  And when they are caught giving Obamacare subsidies to illegals, they should have all Obamacare money cut off.

Wish we had a President willing to do this.