“Let me make this clear,” Manning said in the statement issued on Wednesday. “Local zoning decisions should be left to local government where the people most affected make the decisions and not by some pointy headed bureaucrat looking at a census map from Washington, DC.”
Earlier on Wednesday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) unveiled a new plan to break down patterns of segregation across the country and reduce racial concentrations of poverty.
HUD said the new rules would help areas that receive government housing funding to meet their equal opportunities obligations.
“Once again, the Obama administration thinks it knows best for local communities, and is attempting to usurp the most basic zoning authority in a misguided attempt to create equal outcomes rather than equal opportunities,” Manning argued.
Americans for Limited Government, formerly Americans for Limited Terms, is a conservative political advocacy organization.
