As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
Julia Bergman
As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
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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 But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.
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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 But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.
PHILADELPHIA â Rasheedah Phillips has learned a lot of ways of looking at time. Time is very subjective, explained Phillips, a Philadelphia-based Afrofuturist artist and researcher whose survey questions about time and memory are included in the new anthology Black Futures, featuring the work of more than 100 esteemed Black creatives in the U.S. and abroad. Time is very cultural, said Phillips, who is also a housing attorney at Community Legal Services, the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair community and the cofounder, with her partner Camae Ayewa, also known as the artist Moor Mother, of the collective Black Quantum Futurism. Time is dependent on a person, Phillips said. It depends on a community. It depends on your location.