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For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units.
But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been then head of the New York City’s main housing agency getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing officials felt community preference conflicted with an Obama administration rule requiring municipalities to show how they are combating exclusionary housing. But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.
President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images)
For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units.
But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been then head of the New York City’s main housing agency getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing officials felt community preference conflicted with an Obama administration rule requiring municipalities to show how they are combating exclusionary housing. But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.
Dan, pfft, what aspect of Ms. Baptista’s straightforward reportage suggests support for racial segregation? Not one iota! Natural communities evolve by and of themselves, here in Oz we have what are colloquially referred to as “Greek” suburbs, “Lebanese” suburbs, “Asian” suburbs, got “Little China”? Got “Little Vietnam”? Etc. etc., for a multitude of ethnicities. No one in Oz has ever suggested that they were manufactured for the purpose of segregation, “birds of a feather,” mmm? The only racially controversial suburb in Oz is a Yiddish Khazar suburb (very wealthy) in Sydney, NSW: They have raised a thin wire line in the treetops and telephone poles around the suburb that is almost entirely inhabited by yids, they say that it is not an apartheid fence, “…it’s just a thin piece of wire, oy vey,” they say the wire describes a “religious” precinct (Oh really?) however, the group of fundamentalist hasidim talmudics that put up the wire ‘border’ w