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An attempt to undo racial inequity through affordable housing in mainly white Woodbridge is dealt a serious blow courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Mansions are lined up along Oenoke Ridge in New Canaan. The area is zoned for a 4-acre, single-family home. On a sunny spring afternoon in 2016, Richard Freedman went on a bike ride through New Canaan. The housing developer was fresh off a disappointment. He had applied to build housing for low-income people in Westport, but his plan had just been rejected. As he rode through the hillsides that afternoon where mansions with gated entrances were separated from each other by four acres and stone walls Freedman wondered whether civil rights groups or developers would ever find a way to change zoning laws so that more than one housing unit could be built on these huge lots. The properties take up most of the town and largely shut out those who need affordable housing. ....
Open-housing debate in Woodbridge: Define racism Can a town’s laws be racist even if they do not explicitly state: “No Blacks Allowed?” That question emerged at the latest public hearing over whether to change zoning, and boost affordable housing, in New Haven’s leafy neighbor to the west. The question came towards the end of a three-hour hearing hosted last week by the Woodbridge Town Planning & Zoning Commission. The two-pronged rezoning proposal submitted by civil rights attorneys and Yale Law School students has inspired New Haveners concerned about the regional roots of segregation and racism to weigh in (in this case, and in similar statewide efforts). ....