This article originally appeared in ProPublica, and was investigated and reported by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Nov. 2, 2012 — The city of Rye, nestled along the scenic Long Island Sound in affluent...view
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Feb. 27, 2013 — The Monitor filed his annual report for 2012 earlier this week. The report and the exhibits to the report can be found at the bottom of this page. Detailed observations from ADC...view
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March 26, 2013 — HUD caused a stir yesterday by sending a letter to Westchester threatening to permanently reallocate away from the county the fiscal year 2011 funds that the agency had previously...view
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[Updated June 14, 2013] Westchester’s pattern of violating all material elements of the Consent Decree was apparent from the outset. By 2011, it had also become painfully clear that the U.S....view
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July 21, 2012 — The Consent Decree unmistakably contemplates that all housing developed under the Decree will be developed pursuant to an Implementation Plan (IP) that sets forth with specificity how...view
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June 14, 2013 — Nearly four years after the entry of the Consent Decree, the U.S. Attorney, HUD, and the Monitor need to stop pretending that progress has been made and concentrate on holding...view
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July 31, 2013 — Four years after the entry of the Consent Decree that the Monitor is supposed to have been overseeing, four years after Westchester had the mandatory obligation imposed upon it to...view
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Aug. 6, 2013 — Exhibit 2 to the Monitor’s report on zoning (“summary charts of municipal zoning data”) is now available (see this link). These charts, along with the report itself, underline how the...view
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April 17, 2014 — ADC has just issued a report entitled “Cheating On Every Level: Anatomy of the Demise of a Civil Rights Consent Decree.” The report documents Westchester County’s ongoing violations...view
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May 6, 2014 — On May 2nd, in response to ADC’s Cheating on Every Level report, the presiding judge in the Westchester case held what was billed as a status conference.
Most critically,...view