Commentary

Westchester Case
The Report, almost four years in the making, does not provide the Court with the necessary information and context to understand Westchester's failure to meet either its unit-specific requirements or several other of its core obligations, including its obligation to require its municipalities to remove zoning barriers. More
Westchester Case
Anti-Discrimination Center (ADC) is deeply disappointed by the decision by the court to ignore Westchester's years-long failure to obey core elements of the consent decree, to ignore the failure of the U.S. Attorney and the Monitor to enforce those elements, and to pretend, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that the decree is basically on track. More
Westchester Case
Consent decree "must be enforced completely and and enforced with passion and determination," says one. The housing to be built under the consent decree was intended "to be catalytic in impact," says another. More
Westchester Case
More than six years after Westchester was forced to enter into a federal court consent decree requiring the dismantling of zoning barriers to affordable housing, very little is understood about the actual requirements of that decree. The confusion is evident in a recent editorial in the Westchester Journal News. Featuring a call to “finish housing settlement,” the Editorial Board is apparently not aware that compliance with the consent decree has barely begun. More
Westchester Case
Another example of the wrongheadedness of the strategy of the U.S. Attorney and the Monitor to pretend that, in the main, the Westchester consent decree is on track. More
Westchester Case
Westchester challenge to being cut off because it didn't conduct proper zoning analysis decisively rejected. But the failure of the Government and the Monitor to take seriously the obligation to enforce the consent decree in court (the normal place to do so) again made clear. More

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