A year after the Consent Decree was entered, Westchester shows every indication of its intention to continue to defy the lawful order of a federal court, and those with the governmental authority and responsibility to seek to vindicate that order have failed to do so.
Astorino continues to insist on using a term that "conflates fair housing with affordable housing and obscures the County's obligations" to affirmatively further fair housing.
Editorial recites County Executive's flat-out rejection of County's obligation to sue resistant municipalities in addition to the "expression of non-compliance" represented by the veto of source-of-income legislation.