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.
"Perspective" column in the Westchester Journal News from ADC's Executive Director discussing the ways that Westchester manifests its contempt towards the consent decree it is legally obligated to obey, and the national significance of how that course of conduct is dealt with.
Writing in The Nation, Patterson describes residential segregation as the "crucial source" of the still persisting "exclusion of blacks from the private sphere of American life." "Nowhere," he writes, "is the paradox of public integration and private exclusion better reflected than in the fact that America's most segregated places are its most liberal metropolitan areas, where blacks play major roles in public life."
High Stakes Gambling With the Rule of Law
"Perspective" column in the Westchester Journal News from ADC's Executive Director discussing the ways that Westchester manifests its contempt towards the consent decree it is legally obligated to obey, and the national significance of how that course of conduct is dealt with.