NY Delays Minority Housing in Clintons’ Suburb
A state board denied on Wednesday most of the variances needed for an affordable housing project aimed at non-whites in the New York suburb that is home to former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The denials mean at least a long delay in the construction of 28 rental units in Chappaqua that would be part of the 2009 settlement of a housing desegregation suit against Westchester County.
The settlement calls for the county to build 750 units in mostly white areas — like the Town of New Castle, which includes Chappaqua — and market them to non-whites.
The town supervisor opposed the project and local officials raised safety issues that required variances. On Wednesday, the Hudson Valley Regional Board of Review approved a variance regarding fire truck accessibility but denied several others.
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating a complaint by the developer, Conifer Realty, that the local opposition to the housing project is race-based.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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