For Immediate Release  10/2/13

Contact: JPS 438 5230

          SULLIVAN OPPOSES

          LAND BANKS AND

          2013 HUD HOUSING

          REGULATION

Joseph P Sullivan Conservative candidate

(ROW C) for Albany Mayor in the November

5 General Election opposes Land Banks

and the 2013 HUD (federal) housing regs

"Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing".

Land Banks erode private property rights

and vest neighborhood revitalization efforts

in political appointees who are not accountable

to neighborhood residents. Fraud and

corruption can result.

The 2013 Federal Housing and Urban

Development agency (HUD) Affirmatively

Furthering Fair Housing Regulations will

override local zoning authority and destroy

the city property tax base.

Read:
  Robert Astorino: Washington's 'Fair Housing' Assault on Local Zoning - WSJ.com

  Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...-diversity-in/
 

The Section 8 Housing Program is a

major factor in the blight of one

neighborhood, after another, in the City

of Albany.

Section 8 is a major factor in erosion

of the city property tax base.

Get the Federal government  out of

education, housing, zoning and land

use decision making. These are local

and state prerogatives to be addressed

by local public officials elected by , and

accountable to, local residents.

Kathy Sheehan  the Democratic-Working

Families Party candidate advocates

a Land Bank and will support the HUD

Regulations.

The most pressing neighborhood needs

in the City of Albany are:

1. Security and public safety

2. Strict enforcement of city speed

    limits in residential neighborhoods

    and cracking down on running

    red lights and stop signs.

3. Reduction and elimination of

    road salt dumping on city

    streets.

4. Improved snow plowing, snow

    removal in residential neighborhoods.

For more Sullivan positions on issues

vital to the survival of the City and all

who call Albany home, go to:

http://lonerangeralbany.blogspot.com/

.

                       Joseph P Sullivan

                       For Albany Mayor

                       Conservative Row C

                       November 5