CHI to Play Role
in Implementing
Discrimination Settlement
The New York Times
IN THE REGION | Westchester
New Housing, After a Court Order
By ELSA BRENNER
Published: January 7, 2010
VOICING compliance with a federal court order, the administration of Rob Astorino, the new county executive, pledged last week that Westchester would shift direction and create affordable housing in predominantly white towns and villages rather than in localities with high concentrations of blacks and Hispanics.
OWNERSHIP Minerva Place opened recently in White Plains, which has a diverse population.
But developers of affordable housing said that at the same time they set off in a new direction, they will also continue to build in lower-income areas.
In August, following a three-year legal battle with the Anti-Discrimination Center in Manhattan, the county, then under the administration of Andrew J. Spano, was forced to agree to create affordable housing in overwhelmingly white towns and villages like Scarsdale and Briarcliff Manor, where zoning boards have traditionally been resistant.
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