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Anti-Discrimination Center (Craig Gurian, ED)

3 Dec, 9 tweets, 4 min read

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Daily News editorial, in 9 parts.

Does Mayor de Blasio, who won election on a promise to end the “tale of two cities,” want to weaken or entrench racial segregation in New York City? (1/9) @Sifill_LDF @ItsLisaRice

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We ask because, based on the way his administration has waged a four-year-long court battle defending a housing policy that deepens divisions, he seems to have a thing for ethnic balkanization. (2/9)

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Reams of data show how in America, geography can determine destiny. In New York, residential clustering of people by race leads to clustering in education and can yield worse economic and health outcomes. (3/9)

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Yet the de Blasio administration goes to the mattresses to defend “community preference,” a city housing practice that allots up to 50% of units in newly built affordable housing developments to current neighborhood residents. (4/9)

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De Blasio’s administration maintains the preference is critical to securing local officials’ and neighborhood groups’ approval for developments they’d otherwise oppose. But if City Hall thought this policy was so great,

(5/9)

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why fight for two years in federal court to keep secret an analysis thoroughly demonstrating how it actually creates “a sorting process that would not otherwise exist and does so in a pattern that causes material disparities by race and ethnicity”? (6/9)

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That analysis, commissioned by the civil rights group that filed the lawsuit, also found that community preference so privileges local residents near new developments that it effectively keeps poor New Yorkers stuck wherever they already are,

(7/9)

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even as most housing lottery applicants apply “at least 75% of the time” outside their own community district.
What New York City needs is a less myopic affordable housing policy,

(8/9)

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one that builds the case for creating drastically more housing, affordable and market rate, citywide, instead of pitting neighborhoods and the people living in them against each other in a cage match for a vanishingly scarce supply. (9/9)

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