There is not one aspect of any of our lives that the bureaucrats in federal government don’t want to stick our noses into. They to tell us what to eat. They tell the grocery stores how to label salad. They tell us what kind of toilets and showers we can have in our bathrooms. They tell us what kind of lightbulbs to put in our fixtures. They tell us how many miles per gallon our cars have to get. They even tell us how many minutes of break time we must take at work. So it’s really not surprising that they’re now telling us how to do upkeep on our homes, all in the name of safety of course. The message to Americans is that we’re all too inept to take care of our own lives and we need the guiding fist of Big Government.

This week, the Obama administration released a “bold new vision for addressing the nation’s health and economic burdens caused by preventable hazards associated with the home.”

The project has a name: “Advancing Healthy Housing: A Strategy for Action.”

“People in the United States spend about 70% of their time in a home,” the announcement said.

“Currently, millions of U.S. homes have moderate to severe physical housing problems, including dilapidated structure; roofing problems; heating, plumbing, and electrical deficiencies; water leaks and intrusion; pests; damaged paint; and high radon gas levels. These conditions are associated with a wide range of health issues, including unintentional injuries, respiratory illnesses like asthma and radon-induced lung cancer, lead poisoning, result in lost school days for children, as well as lost productivity in the labor force.”

According to the Obama administration, the health and economic burdens from preventable hazards associated with both subsidized and privately owned homes cost billions of dollars.

The new strategy “unifies” federal efforts to advance healthy housing — “demonstrating the connection between housing conditions and residents’ health.”

The federal partners pushing healthy housing include the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Surgeon General, and Energy Department.

Read the whole thing. When you think of who is involved in this you know it’s going to get expensive.

http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/02/go...Conservative%29

That's rich coming from someone whose chief advisor is a known slumlord. Gawd but I hate this bastard more and more every day.

This is just a ploy to spread the wealth to his political cronies.

For the slumlord's defense, Barack Obama, Esq.

Writing in his 1995 autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Obama said he became "a civil rights lawyer" because "to lend meaning to a community's suffering and take part in its healing -- that required something more."

There was indeed "something more" to Obama's legal career, but it wasn't civil rights litigation at the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where he was employed for a decade.

"He spent about half his time working with Bill Miceli and my former partner, Allison Davis, and that team," senior partner Judson Miner told The Washington Examiner. Most of the entries on Obama's client list for the firm from that period were in real estate, construction and finance.

Miceli and Davis were the partners in charge of the firm's housing and real estate practices. Davis would later leave the firm to join Obama mentor Tony Rezko in the real estate development business.

In March 1994, a year before "Dreams" was published, Obama was the lead defense attorney on an obscure case in Cook County Court that has heretofore escaped examination by the national media.

In this case, Obama defended a Chicago slumlord and powerful political ally who was charged with a long list of offenses against poor residents. The defendant was the Woodlawn Preservation & Investment Corp., controlled by Bishop Arthur Brazier, a South Side Chicago preacher and political operator.

Brazier's burgeoning real estate empire included a low-income housing project at 6223 South University. Today, MapQuest describes the Woodlawn neighborhood as "quaint and sedate." But in the winter of 1994, it was a frigid hell.

Brazier was closely allied with Obama and his firm, not least because Davis was on WPIC's Board of Directors. Davis was also the corporation's registered agent, and he received the court summons when the city filed suit on the South University apartments.

Brazier's WPIC had failed for nearly a month to supply heat and running water for the complex's 15 crumbling apartments. On Jan. 18, 1994, the day the heat went off, Chicago's official high temperature was 11 below zero, the day after it was 19 below.

Even worse, the residents were then ordered to leave the WPIC complex in the winter chill without the due process they would have been afforded by an eviction procedure.

In court documents reviewed by The Washington Examiner, Daniel W. Weil, commissioner of Chicago's Buildings Department, slammed WPIC for multiple municipal code violations, including "failure to maintain adequate heat," failure "to provide every family unit with approved heating facilities," and "failure to provide adequate" supplies of either hot or cold running water.

Things were so bad that the city's outraged corporation counsel declared that "the levying of a fine is not an adequate remedy" and asked the court for a permanent injunction against WPIC, appointment of a receiver and imposition of a lien on WPIC to pay for repairs, attorneys' fees and court costs.

But Obama did his work so well that in the end, on March 3, 1994, the court simply fined WPIC $50. Only then did Obama tell the court of the forcible removal of tenants in the bitter cold.

An experienced Chicago housing attorney who reviewed the case at the Examiner's request said $50 fines against politically powerful slumlords were not uncommon at that time. The lawyer, who currently works for the city, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal

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For the slumlord's defense, Barack Obama, Esq.

Writing in his 1995 autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Obama said he became "a civil rights lawyer" because "to lend meaning to a community's suffering and take part in its healing -- that required something more."

There was indeed "something more" to Obama's legal career, but it wasn't civil rights litigation at the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where he was employed for a decade.

"He spent about half his time working with Bill Miceli and my former partner, Allison Davis, and that team," senior partner Judson Miner told The Washington Examiner. Most of the entries on Obama's client list for the firm from that period were in real estate, construction and finance.

Miceli and Davis were the partners in charge of the firm's housing and real estate practices. Davis would later leave the firm to join Obama mentor Tony Rezko in the real estate development business.

In March 1994, a year before "Dreams" was published, Obama was the lead defense attorney on an obscure case in Cook County Court that has heretofore escaped examination by the national media.

In this case, Obama defended a Chicago slumlord and powerful political ally who was charged with a long list of offenses against poor residents. The defendant was the Woodlawn Preservation & Investment Corp., controlled by Bishop Arthur Brazier, a South Side Chicago preacher and political operator.

Brazier's burgeoning real estate empire included a low-income housing project at 6223 South University. Today, MapQuest describes the Woodlawn neighborhood as "quaint and sedate." But in the winter of 1994, it was a frigid hell.

Brazier was closely allied with Obama and his firm, not least because Davis was on WPIC's Board of Directors. Davis was also the corporation's registered agent, and he received the court summons when the city filed suit on the South University apartments.

Brazier's WPIC had failed for nearly a month to supply heat and running water for the complex's 15 crumbling apartments. On Jan. 18, 1994, the day the heat went off, Chicago's official high temperature was 11 below zero, the day after it was 19 below.

Even worse, the residents were then ordered to leave the WPIC complex in the winter chill without the due process they would have been afforded by an eviction procedure.

In court documents reviewed by The Washington Examiner, Daniel W. Weil, commissioner of Chicago's Buildings Department, slammed WPIC for multiple municipal code violations, including "failure to maintain adequate heat," failure "to provide every family unit with approved heating facilities," and "failure to provide adequate" supplies of either hot or cold running water.

Things were so bad that the city's outraged corporation counsel declared that "the levying of a fine is not an adequate remedy" and asked the court for a permanent injunction against WPIC, appointment of a receiver and imposition of a lien on WPIC to pay for repairs, attorneys' fees and court costs.

But Obama did his work so well that in the end, on March 3, 1994, the court simply fined WPIC $50. Only then did Obama tell the court of the forcible removal of tenants in the bitter cold.

An experienced Chicago housing attorney who reviewed the case at the Examiner's request said $50 fines against politically powerful slumlords were not uncommon at that time. The lawyer, who currently works for the city, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal

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It sure is. He's just pure evil. I still have a hard time grasping the fact that this POS suckered so many people.

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It sure is. He's just pure evil. I still have a hard time grasping the fact that this POS suckered so many people.

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I think Eglman is aware . . .

this new program has nothing to do with making houses safer for the serfs and slaves . . . not really.

This new project is totally about

the first nose of the first camel under the wall of the first tent toward

removing folks from personally owned housing and putting all the serfs and slaves into very cramped Soviet style rabbit warrens only smaller . . . one recent proposal toward that in NYC, IIRC, was about 150 square feet or some absurdly small amount. Made current studio apartments sound spacious

Remember, they are determined to outlaw personal property and cram the 200-500 million remaining survivors of their genocidal UN Agenda 21 population reduction efforts into the few remaining cities and into cells. We shall see how many of the cells have bars.

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I think Eglman is aware . . .

this new program has nothing to do with making houses safer for the serfs and slaves . . . not really.

This new project is totally about

the first nose of the first camel under the wall of the first tent toward

removing folks from personally owned housing and putting all the serfs and slaves into very cramped Soviet style rabbit warrens only smaller . . . one recent proposal toward that in NYC, IIRC, was about 150 square feet or some absurdly small amount. Made current studio apartments sound spacious

Remember, they are determined to outlaw personal property and cram the 200-500 million remaining survivors of their genocidal UN Agenda 21 population reduction efforts into the few remaining cities and into cells. We shall see how many of the cells have bars.

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There is a tiny house movement that is not about government forcing people to live in much smaller places. A lot of people are doing it as a lifestyle choice. Some of the designs are quite good and utilize every bit of space in a way that doesn't feel like a cramped jail cell at all.

Zitat

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The new strategy “unifies” federal efforts to advance healthy housing

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Let me guess what their ultimate goal is...



Soviet style apartment for all so the Regime can take care of all our needs in a central location.

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There is a tiny house movement that is not about government forcing people to live in much smaller places. A lot of people are doing it as a lifestyle choice. Some of the designs are quite good and utilize every bit of space in a way that doesn't feel like a cramped jail cell at all.

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Thank you. Vision: Developers envision a future in which the young, the cash-strapped and older couples whose children had moved out flock to such small dwellings - each not much bigger than a dorm room


I think it's cool.

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Remember, they are determined to outlaw personal property and cram the 200-500 million remaining survivors of their genocidal UN Agenda 21 population reduction efforts into the few remaining cities and into cells. We shall see how many of the cells have bars.

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Story about Bloomie's micro-apartments. They will require waiving NYC's minimum size requirements:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-JAIL-CELL.html

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There is a tiny house movement that is not about government forcing people to live in much smaller places. A lot of people are doing it as a lifestyle choice. Some of the designs are quite good and utilize every bit of space in a way that doesn't feel like a cramped jail cell at all.

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