Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to "Integrate" communities bases of Race and Incom

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[quote]The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new plan to change U.S. neighborhoods it says are racially imbalanced or are too tilted toward rich or poor, arguing the country's housing policies have not been effective at creating the kind of integrated communities the agency had hoped for.[/quote]

[quote]The proposed federal rule, called "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing," is currently under a 60-day public comment period. Though details of how the policy would specifically work are unclear, the rule says HUD would provide states, local governments and others who receive agency money with data and a geospatial tool to look at "patterns of integration and segregation; racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty; access to education, employment, low-poverty, transportation, and environmental health."[/quote]

[quote]States would then assess the best way to integrate communities deemed by HUD's data to not be integrated enough. A HUD official, who did not want to speak on record because of the public comment period, said the rule hopes to better match up HUD-assisted housing with the communities that have good hospitals, schools and other assets[/quote]

[url]http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/08/09/hud-proposes-plan-to-racially-economically-integrate-neighborhoods[/url]
[url]https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/07/19/2013-16751/affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing[/url]

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To my understanding, before this, the Fair Housing Act just prevented discrimination in housing, and didn't actually take action to more proactively change housing. Now however, they can take and analyse data about housing areas, and have states take action based off this. Of course then some states will take far more action than others, and this won't really change much at all. Housing will always vary based off income, and as long as income average income varies based off race/disability/whatever, their will always be poorer neighborhoods with a higher concentration of various subgroups.