Thread: Republicans Blast ‘Livable Communities’ Bill for Cities

To administer and regulate these new grants, the bill creates the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) within the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Republicans Blast ‘Livable Communities’ Bill As Washington-BasedCentral Planning for Cities and Towns

Wednesday, August 04, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer


Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut at a news conference on health care on Dec. 14, 2009. The five-term Democrat has decided not to run for re-election. (AP File Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

(CNSNews.com) – The Senate Banking Committee passed the Livable Communities Act on Tuesday, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The bill creates $4 billion in neighborhood planning grants for “sustainableâ€

This is MUCH more than "central planning"!! It's codification into Federal Law the principles and policy recommendations in U.N. Agenda 21, a 300 page report with recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Some borrowed from 1970 Rockefeller Fund publications. I've been trying to induce people to read this "agenda" for over 10 years, that is IF they want to keep their freedom and property rights. You will see much of this is what local planning entities have been doing for years! This is what the whole environmental movement is about. Search:"United Nations Agenda 21" - You can start with this brief summary here: http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/agenda-21.htm This is about "herding" people into "sustainable" communities where they will live, work, shop without using cars. Driving will be restricted by law. In the U.S.S.R. they called their "communities" Soviets. READ AGENDA 21! They MUST be Stopped!