From the February 16, 2010 editorial:
"Perhaps some of the shortcomings detailed by the monitor are curable by more thinking, better work product, and a more attentive reading of the 38-page settlement order, which leaves little to the imagination about who has to do what, when and why...But other omissions (oversights?) in the county's plan are more troubling; indeed, they speak to the heart of the reason why Westchester faces this predicament: Over the many decades, the county has been unwilling to challenge local governments for land-use policies that in some cases are openly hostile to fair housing and affordable housing — despite attesting that it would do so, as a condition of accepting millions of dollars in federal community development and housing funds, and then doling out those funds to 'consortium' municipalities throughout the county. The inaction has come despite being empowered to act under long-settled state and federal laws — authority that has been in place long before the nonprofit Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York filed the lawsuit that brought the county's failures to light."