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The Hochul admin deferred to the Trump admin, “per procedure,” on whether a housing authority complex could be eligible for rebuild.
The deference left the Hochul admin subsidizing a housing authority that HUD found in violation of civil rights laws.
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The Town of Hempstead Housing Authority disclosed in its $20 million tax credit application to NYS that HUD had fair housing violations against it.
NYS approved the subsidy, despite the state’s duty to “affirmatively further fair housing.”
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ICE arrests are ticking back up in New York, new data shows. But on Long Island they’re declining, bucking the state and national trend.
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ICE isn’t just capitalizing off of car culture in the suburbs, it’s also targeting drivers with out of state plates in areas of the city that don’t have robust public transit and rely on cars
ICE enforcement across New York City appears to have ticked up in recent weeks — with many of the arrests targeting drivers or passengers in cars with out-of-state plates.
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While looking at the state travel reimbursements New York legislators get, my colleague @biancapallaro and I started noticing a trend: some were also simultaneously reporting lots of travel expenses on their campaign disclosures. 1/ nytimes.com/2026/08/21/nyreg…
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The federal government has taken back its sweeping determination that the Town of Hempstead Housing Authority used an illegal point system to discriminate against persons with disabilities and people of color while also fostering racial segregation for at least a decade.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s withdrawal of its investigation’s findings, issued in 2024, came days after Newsday published a report that revealed the probe to the public for the first time.
Read the full story here: nwsdy.li/4grWZF7. (Photo credit: Drew Singh)
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FEDS “FLIP-FLOP” ON HOUSING BIAS
One week after Newsday disclosed a 2024 HUD investigation that found a decade-plus of systematic discrimination at a local housing authority, HUD withdrew its “damning” findings.
“It’s shocking,” said the former head of enforcement.
More here in this thread about the Town of Hempstead Housing Authority:
An unlawful waitlist point system benefited elderly white seniors at the expense of working-age people with disabilities and Black and Hispanic families, HUD found in a previously undisclosed probe that was uncovered by @Newsday.
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NEWSDAY INVESTIGATES: Hempstead's public housing authority discriminated against people of color and with disabilities, feds say.
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An unlawful waitlist point system benefited elderly white seniors at the expense of working-age people with disabilities and Black and Hispanic families, HUD found in a previously undisclosed probe that was uncovered by @Newsday.
More here:
What happens when a HUD investigation finds a local government in violation of civil rights, ADA and fair housing laws for at least a decade?
So far, it appears nothing.
Documents obtained by @Newsday reveal the playbook to the alleged discrimination.
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One of Long Island’s public housing authorities “systematically” blocked disabled people and Black and Latinos from subsidized housing, a HUD investigation found.
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The former Maryland state attorney general, Doug Gansler, has been representing the local housing authority that’s been found to have violated civil rights, ADA and fair housing laws for over a decade.
He did not return requests for comment.
One of Long Island’s public housing authorities “systematically” blocked disabled people and Black and Latinos from subsidized housing, a HUD investigation found.
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Read @therealjsolo on the Hempstead public housing authority's litany of problems.
"This is one of, if not, the most damning letter of findings I’ve ever seen from HUD to a local government or housing authority."
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What happens when a HUD investigation finds a local government in violation of civil rights, ADA and fair housing laws for at least a decade?
So far, it appears nothing.
Documents obtained by @Newsday reveal the playbook to the alleged discrimination.
newsday.com/long-island/inve…
Behind the waitlist point and preference system that led to “systematic” denial of housing to the disabled and facilitated “acute racial segregation.”
The HUD 2024 probe against the Town of Hempstead Housing Authority that the public didn’t know about.
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