Recently the ADC asked the court to hold Westchester County in contempt regarding the Spano-brokered low income/affordable housing settlement. The Journal News featured an article on this and related issues on May 6th; see http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/05/an-update-on-hud-adc-etc-journal-news.html
The ADC has updated their website with the following:
May 6, 2014 -- On May 2nd, in response to ADC's Cheating on Every Level report, the presiding judge in the Westchester case held what was billed as a status conference. Most
critically, the U.S. Attorney took the position that paragraph 7(j) of
the decree does not mean what it says. That paragraph requires
Westchester to do two things: (1) take all appropriate action,
including litigation, to overcome hindrances to building housing units
that affirmatively further fair housing under the decree....(like
exclusionary or otherwise restrictive zoning) that municipalities have
not themselves eliminated....read more here http://www.antibiaslaw.com/home/us-attorney-representing-hud-concocts-bizarrely-limiting-interpretation-key-consent-decree-prov
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OCTOBER 1, 2014 UPDATE: http://www.antibiaslaw.com/article/hud-critiques-monitors-deeply-flawed-disparate-impact-analysis-monitor-flips-out
FEBRUARY 2015 UPDATE: http://www.antibiaslaw.com/article/statement-regarding-federal-grant-workaround-being-provided-westchesters-former-consortium
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