The City of Concord is hosting two initial community meetings for the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rezoning Project
In person: Monday, April 22, 6-8 p.m., Centre Concord, 5298 Clayton Road
Online: Thursday, April 25, 6-8 p.m. (register for Zoom event)
At this early stage in the project, the City wants to hear your thoughts on rezoning select properties in higher resource neighborhoods to allow multifamily development (see the project area map).
While the project is being completed under mandates from the State of California, the City says they aim to partner with residents, businesses, and property owners to address housing inequities. You will hear information about the project and have the opportunity to provide input on guiding principles, opportunities and challenges, and site selection criteria.
What is AFFH?
AFFH stands for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. It is a provision of the Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and a piece of federal legislation that prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing and ensures equal opportunity in housing for all.
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Anything with the word “affirm” in it is to be avoided at all costs
Citizens of Concord WAKE UP !
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under mandates from the State of California …
select properties in higher resource neighborhoods to allow multifamily development
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In short, high density housing.
For those who haven’t lived in the area all their lives,
Monument Blvd was a high density experiment last century.
It did wonders for Concord’s crime rate . . . . still a problem area.
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DEMs rubbing CA have done so well with crime EQUALITY,
by emptying, then closing state prisons.
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Utility rates, PG&E rates have gone up 92% in less than 10 years.
electricity rates went up 38% from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2023.”
caglobe https://tinyurl.com/ycykrkrv
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DEMs are destroying CA ! ! !
“Higher resource neighborhood”? You’ve gotta be joking.
Have these people seen the traffic on Ygnacio and Treat lately? If you want to put more people in multi-family housing in this area, solve the transportation problem first.
TASHAJ,
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The City of Concord’s answer to traffic problems is to add bike lanes, which go underused and unused, even when they have to remove lanes of for vehicle travel to do so.
Build a new neighborhood at the navel weapons site. Tons of room for high density housing and strip malls. Follow the guide of Lone Tree Way out by Hwy 4 extension.
Room for Big Box brick & mortor, apartments and starter homes. Close to North Concord BART. Consult Seeno.
PATTY JONES,
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It’s not the responsibility of the residents who live near the former CNWS property to take the types of housing that you don’t want near you. Are you aware that the former CNWS property stretches from Port Chicago Highway past Kirker Pass Road? Although, housing will only be built up to Bailey Road, and construction will begin at Willow Pass Road.
Much of the land is a hazmat disaster.
Get a clue!!! That would ruin Concord! We’d rather not become another pitstain like Antioch w cameras in grocery store parking lots.
The Democrat politicians are absolute experts at creating new names(and ways) for what is basically taking away the earnings of those who work, and giving it away to those that don’t.
Sounds like a meeting of the(welfare) “minds”
Destroying single family zoned neighborhoods. I don’t want to live next to an apartment complex or multi unit structure.
You did well, worked hard, saved, are a productive and responsible member of society so DEMs are going to punish you by forced equality. Your low crime neighborhoods you enjoy and property values you worked so hard for, you think that will continue after this DEM experimentation ? ? ?
Time has come to vote DEMs out of office at ALL levels of government ! ! ! !
This is part of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, not the Civil Rights Act. It was President Obama who first changed the law by requiring high-density housing in suburban areas, which was repealed by President Trump, which President Biden then repealed the Trump repeal. The goal of President Obama and President Biden was/is to add subsidized high-density lower-income housing to higher income neighborhoods. If the City of Concord has accepted any HUD funding for housing and/or urban development then they’re most likely going to have to make these changes. These meetings appear to be nothing but a formality.
vote Dems out and turn it over to the dysfunctional, disorganized. delusional Republican party???
How do we stop this in particular? Is this being voted on? What recourse do we have besides voting them out, which may not stop this in particular.
The largest cohort of low income people in Concord by far are Hispanics with limited English language skills. So instead of building new affordable housing for them in places where services and stores for this community already exist, the city proposes to build housing for them on the outskirts of town, far away from stores, services and public transportation that they need.
Hmmm… did anybody think to ask these poor folks where they actually would prefer to have this housing built?
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