opinion
WESTCHESTER WAR
The last president warned housewives “they” were coming for your homes. This president sounds much better, but he hasn’t done much so far in “hyper-segregated” Westchester County.
Craig Gurian is the executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center and is currently lead counsel in the Fair Housing Act case challenging New York City’s “community preference” policy in affordable housing lotteries. His legislative accomplishments include being a principal author of the comprehensive 1991 revisions to the NYC Human Rights Law and the principal author of the 2005 NYC Local Civil Rights Restoration Act. His articles include Let Them Rent Cake: George Pataki, Market Ideology, and the Attempt to Dismantle Rent Regulation in New York. He has taught at Fordham Law (including Housing Discrimination: History, Demographics, Law, and Remedies) and at Columbia (University Writing). He is on Twitter at @antibiaslaw.