Westchester County’s desegregation plan is again found inadequate and the court appointed monitor has given the County until August 9th to remedy. The monitor questioned the County Executive’s “tone” in terms of providing leadership on this issue. If dissatisfied, the monitor does have the power, under the original HUD consent degree, to revise the County’s plan. (more…)
Last week, the monitor overseeing the settlement rejected the county’s affordable-housing plan, saying it was deficient on details, accountability and enforcement. Instead of specifying what the county would do to meet certain desegregation bench marks, Westchester merely restated the bench marks. The plan didn’t specify where and how the money would be spent. It had no “concrete time frame” for finding and buying properties to develop and was “unnecessarily vague on the whole.” (more…)
