Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Mayor de Blasio administration obfuscating race and income data of affordable housing applicants



 



The de Blasio administration is fighting to keep under wraps studies of its own data used to analyze whether the city’s affordable housing lottery system reinforces segregation.

The latest result: a 31-page report filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday that contains the word “Redacted” 131 times over the spots where the findings would be — including eight times with the R-word screaming out in huge type.

The fight for secrecy stems from a suit filed by a civil rights group arguing that the city’s policy of giving so-called “community preference” for affordable housing to residents already living in a neighborhood keeps intact the racial and income status quo.

The Anti-Discrimination Center’s latest analysis of the issue isn’t public, thanks to objections by the city.
It’s extraordinary that information that can’t be personally identified is treated as a state secret,” said Craig Gurian, an attorney representing the Anti-Discrimination Center. “This is information the public could not be more interested in. It’s not personal information. It’s how the housing lottery process — which can have tens of thousands of New Yorkers apply for a few apartments — whether people get a level playing field or not, based on race.”

Gurian first asked a federal magistrate judge to put this data into the court record in June 2017 after a statistics expert hired by the Anti-Discrimination Center completed his first report.

At the time, however, Judge Katharine Parker blocked the release of the study’s results, agreeing with the de Blasio administration’s request to keep it private while city lawyers prepared their response.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

What I don't understand is why these "lawyers" are receiving more consideration than the citizens of NYC. It's data that exists and is compiled for a reason, to insure that NYC is not run by a pack of closet racists, another Birmingham, ala 1950's. It's the public's money that funds the compilation of the data, the books should be open. This "lawyers need time" thing, is an old worn out ruse. Just like NYC's mayor!

Anonymous said...

Isn’t this the sort of things that they accuse Trump of? Can we expect the NYS attorney general to investigate?

Anonymous said...

Queens Crap-- What do you suspect is really happening?

JQ LLC said...

@Anon re: suspect

Purely opinion, while race is surely a factor, I think the developers behind these buildings mostly don't want low income citizens living in their buildings.

And the area median income they cite for pricing these buildings in niche towns, say North and Northeast Brooklyn and even in the South Bronx are designed for the "struggling" millenial caste. Some actual affordable buildings have been built but they are very far away from mass transit

de Blasio's affordable housing plan is a pure scam. And this just proves it. Whats truly hysterical is that his information erasers decide to just print the actual word instead of leaving the majority of their FOIL's black. But everybody knows how Mayor de Faustio feels about optics...

Anonymous said...

@ JQ LLC said...
"developers behind these buildings mostly don't want low income citizens living in their buildings."
Anyting under $100,000 is now low income in NYC. That being said the developers are not the only ones who don't want to live with low income "Citizens"!
JQ LLC said... How would you or the developers know if they are Citizens ?

JQ LLC said...

Last anon: re citizens

How do you know they aren't?

Anonymous said...

That's not the only thing he obfuscates.
Obfuscation is his middle name.
That's why he keeps changing it.

Anonymous said...

Actually, last Anonymous, 'Teflon' is Shithead de BLASS-hole's middle name——everyone else who offered this 'Tall & Stupid' genetic mutation bribery money was indicted, prosecuted and soon to be in jail——but, NOT the obfuscating termite who ACCEPTED these bribes!

Even the late 'Teflon Don' himself, John Gotti, didn't get away with half as much OPENLY PRACTICING graft as this intensely incompetent, corrupt, dishonest, dishonorable, derelict, disloyal, disgraced――and, unfunny clown (the latest to squeeze into the DNCs right of center Republican clown car, wearing the DemonRat label)!

Men have been hanged for LESS!

❝A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices.❞ ――George Orwell

Ned said...

The Democrats are at their agenda for the 2020 campaign's, Agenda 21, the GAIA One World religion, One World housing & One World government. They are the treasonous sell-out bastards working for the globalists.

--and Ocasio-Cortez just said that growing cauliflower in a community garden is Colonial RACIST!
They have all gone crazy over the election of Trump.

Ned
www.nra.org

Anonymous said...

@@They have all gone crazy over the election of Trump.@@

Nah, they were crazy before Trump got elected :) :)

Rob in Manhattan said...

Anonymous Ned said...
The Democrats are at their agenda for the 2020 campaign's, Agenda 21, the GAIA One World religion, One World housing & One World government......

There goes old "Ned" -foaming again. This one I agree with..in part. We ARE talking about a "World Government".

It is called: Capitalism.

As much as I resented and hated the commies, they served one purpose: they kept capitalists just scared enough of the angry mob. With that threat removed there is little now to slay the curse of greed.

Rob in Manhattan

Ned said...

@@There goes old "Ned" -foaming again@@

Your foaming at the mouth I speak the truth !
These Democrats are no different then the Islamic terrorists.
They want you with them, run out of town or dead!!!

The official position, from the Senate to the streets, to the media is “Resistance.” Leftist media outlets and funding from billionaires in Europe are feeding it 24-7.
Its simple math and logic. Divide the left into 2: moderates and radicals. ;both want very similar totalitarian societies with very little personal freedom and a great deal of government control via tactics and bullshit rammed down our throats, anything to get to that totalitarian system in place.

The “moderates” believe in working from within the system to transform the country into a leftist tyranny. The “radicals” like DeBlasio, Sandars, Ortez and Obama now believe that the system is so bad with so much resistance that it cannot even be worked for progressive ends. Instead it needs to be discredited and overthrown by radicalizing a new revolutionary base. Now guess who the are referring to?
A: Millionials, Homeless and voting offspring of illegal immigrants with no pot to piss in and nothing to lose AKA the easily manipulated jackasses of the 21st Century.

Radical democrats radicalize moderates by discrediting the system they want to be a part of. Where moderates seek to impose a false consensus from within the system, radicals attack the system through violent protests and terrorism. Their goal is to set off a chain of confrontations that make it impossible to maintain civil society and polarize the backlash and chaos into consolidating the left for total war.
That is what “Resistance” actually means.

A similar program implemented in Europe, with a covert alliance between Communists and Nazis, led to the deaths of millions, the destruction of much of Europe and the temporary triumph of the left.
Now who's foaming at the mouth?
Go sit in the corner and think about it, wake up !!

-Ned
www.nra.org

Anonymous said...

The reason those affordable housing rents and income requirements are so high is because someone (I believe at the state level but not sure) decided to calculate the Area Median Income (AMI) to include not only the five boros but westchester, putnam, and rock land AKA the RICHEST areas in the state.
That’s why often the minimum income for a studio or 1 bedroom in these places will be $50k...more than your typical city worker makes. More than most people I know makes...
so us New Yorkers get to sit back and watch as gentrifiers snatch some lucrative job and then a nice apartment to match.
But yeah affordable housing is definitely a scam. Their income recs are too high and I think that’s what they are trying to hide. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also racist, maybe even discriminating against the disabled and families as well.

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