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From your first link: > “four councillors – a majority – refused to vote to uphold the law, consistently opposing any limited desegregation.”

SenAnder 3y ago
four councillors – a majority – refused to vote to uphold the law, consistently opposing any limited desegregation. For refusing to follow the court order, the city of Yonkers was crippled by heavy, possibly bankrupting fines [..] Basic services stopped and parks and libraries were shuttered [..] Wasicsko was forced to comply. [i.e. the housing was built such that it broke up white neighborhoods] It should be noted that this ruling creating a precedent that all pubic housing had to follow, and was not the only such ruling [1] or executive order to that effect, as my 2nd link [2] from that post shows. A few more publications reporting on it, if you don't trust the NYPost: [3,4,5,6] [1] The lawsuit was finally resolved with a verdict mandating that the Chicago Housing Authority redistribute public housing into non-black neighborhoods. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_United_States#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_Unit... [2] https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburbs-to-be-less-white-and-less-wealthy/ https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-su... [3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-administration-announces-fair-housing-rule-n388871 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-administration-an... [4] https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-obama-biden-affh-rule-why-did-trump-rescind-it-t188654 https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-obama-biden-affh-rule-why-di... [5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/biden-to-restore-two-obama-era-fair-housing-rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/biden-to-... [6] https://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-hud-fair-housing-rules-mandates-neighborhood-diversity/ https://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-hud...

SenAnder 3y ago

four councillors – a majority – refused to vote to uphold the law, consistently opposing any limited desegregation. For refusing to follow the court order, the city of Yonkers was crippled by heavy, possibly bankrupting fines [..] Basic services stopped and parks and libraries were shuttered [..] Wasicsko was forced to comply. [i.e. the housing was built such that it broke up white neighborhoods] It should be noted that this ruling creating a precedent that all pubic housing had to follow, and was not the only such ruling [1] or executive order to that effect, as my 2nd link [2] from that post shows. A few more publications reporting on it, if you don't trust the NYPost: [3,4,5,6] [1] The lawsuit was finally resolved with a verdict mandating that the Chicago Housing Authority redistribute public housing into non-black neighborhoods. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_United_States#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_Unit... [2] https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburbs-to-be-less-white-and-less-wealthy/ https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-su... [3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-administration-announces-fair-housing-rule-n388871 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-administration-an... [4] https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-obama-biden-affh-rule-why-did-trump-rescind-it-t188654 https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-obama-biden-affh-rule-why-di... [5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/biden-to-restore-two-obama-era-fair-housing-rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/biden-to-... [6] https://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-hud-fair-housing-rules-mandates-neighborhood-diversity/ https://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-hud...