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...and their taxes go down. 

New IRS data show massive disparity
between haves and have nots.

Reporting by David Cay Johnston
for Tax Analysts.

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Westchester seeks to avoid its desegregation obligations.

A new ADC report finds that Westchester's "Implementation Plan" constitutes neither planning or implementation of the historic Settlement Order.  Instead, it is Westchester's bid to maintain the status quo as much as the County can.

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San Francisco Residents Speak Out On Housing Bias Based on LGBT Status

03/04/2010

HUD-Sponsored Forum a Prelude to HUD Study of Extent of Discrimination.

"Housing is a Human Right" - The U.S. Prepares to Report to the U.N.'s Human Rights Council

03/01/2010

Advocates give government officials "snapshot" of human rights concerns in New York City.

FBI Solves Civil Rights-Era Killings, But Few Indictments Will Result

03/01/2010

Three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful.

$2 Million Settlement in Kansas City Racial Harassment Case

02/22/2010

Fair housing case involved display of racially hostile materials by employee of one of the largest owners and operators of multifamily dwellings.

New York Times: It is past time for Westchester's leaders to do what they've promised

02/17/2010

"When one thinks about segregation," Times editorial writes, "Westchester isn’t the first place that comes to mind. But the poor and minority residents desperately looking for an affordable place to live know the bitter truth. It is past time for Westchester’s leaders to do what they’ve promised."

Westchester Journal News Challenges County Non-Compliance

02/16/2010

Editorial notes that home rule doesn't mean absolute rule, not where fair housing choice is concerned.

Age discrimination claimants under City Human Rights Law protected from narrow federal standard

01/20/2010

A federal judge has ruled that the restrictive new federal proof standard in age discrimination litigation -- "but for" causation -- does not apply to the New York City Human Rights Law because the Local Civil Rights Restoration Act made clear that the local law is intended to be interpreted independently, with federal law serving only as a floor, not a ceiling.  As such, age claims under the City HRL will continue to use the "motivating factor" test.

HUD Official Promises Broader Effort on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

01/21/2010

In testimony to a Congressional Committee, Assistant Secretary Trasviña promises "a Department-wide commitment to incorporate our mandate to affirmatively furthering fair housing into all of our work so that we can fulfill our shared goal of truly integrated and balanced living patterns," and asserts that HUD is "working together" with Westchester County to "ensure" that the Settlement Order that emerged from ADC's false claims case against the County "produces real change in Westchester."

HIgh Cost of Segregation

11/20/2009
New report from Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy explores relationship between racial segregation and subprime lending.

2nd Circuit: City HRL Fully Independent

10/06/2009
Loeffler v. Staten Island University Hospital, decided October 6, 2009.  "City HRL claims have typically been treated as co-extensive with state and federal counterparts....However, the New York City Council has rejected such equivalence. The Local Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2005, N.Y.C. Local Law No. 85 (2005) (the “Restoration Act”) amended the City HRL in a variety of ways, including by confirming the legislative intent to abolish 'parallelism' between the City HRL and federal and state anti-discrimination law." 

Broad Sweep of Disability Provisions of City Human Rights Law Clarified and Affirmed

08/01/2009
Appellate Division recognizes that the disability provisions of the City Human Rights Law have a "very different conception and architecture" than the State and federal counterparts to those provisions, holdiing, among other things, that there is no category of accommodation that there is no accommodation that is categorically excluded from the universe of reasonable accommodation.

Bye, bye middle class

02/19/2009

New report from Center for an Urban Future finds a wide gap between the means of most New Yorkers and the costs of living in the city.