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Community Preferences Curtailed: City’s Affordable Housing Lotteries Face Changing Dynamics

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  • Harry DeRienzo
    Posted January 26, 2024 at 3:17 pm

    I would add that I also stated in the interview that even though geography based preference is now irrational, there is no reason why, after a century of discrimination of Blacks and other people of color through racial zoning, exclusionary zoning, Southern Jim Crow laws, Northern mob violence, redlining, FHA-required restrictive covenants, and plain old racism, there should not be a preference for those who bear the legacy of that racism.

  • nyc101
    Posted January 26, 2024 at 4:21 pm

    It’s stupid to penalize people for just wanting to remain in their own neighborhoods, near friends. This will backfire because local councilmembers will be pressured to oppose ‘affordable’ apartment buildings if local residents are being excluded.

  • Stan Chax
    Posted January 29, 2024 at 11:27 am

    NEWSFLASH! Gentrification is still very much alive and well, displacing the poorer populations of many communities. Alleviating that problem was the purpose of these regulations – by giving residents at least a slim chance to remain in the communities where they had their roots— instead of being forced out by the rising rents that rampant development precipitates. Rather than reducing these ratios we should remove them from ALREADY wealthy neighborhoods, areas where there is no gentrification in the true sense of the word. Likewise, we need to limit the advantage to long-time residents of gentrifying neighborhoods. Of course NYC and America have long had a sad history of pushing out indigenous peoples, beginning with the original native inhabitants onwards. This with the mantra: “Hey, we like this place that you call home. It has potential. So get out!”

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