What Is Deed Restrict

A Journal News editorial: Astorino shirks housing duty

In both deed and stubborn word, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has made plain that he has no plans to honor key provisions of the False Claims Act/fair housing settlement brokered with Washington before he took office. The questions now: How far will his obstinance go; how much will it cost county residents — in dollars and prestige; and how long before Westchester ends up in federal court again? It would seem to be just a matter of time.

Some partial answers took shape in a press briefing Friday, where Astorino announced that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development had rejected, for the fifth time, the administration's required analysis of impediments to fair housing choice in Westchester. That failure, according to the administration, stands to cost Westchester some $7 million in federal housing funds; the figure could surely grow, based upon fresh comments from Astorino. He excoriated HUD officials, accusing them of "unprecedented bureaucratic overreaching," and disavowed key settlement provisions.

The latter will have reverberations beyond the press briefing room. Notwithstanding Astorino's objections, both HUD and James E. Johnson, the federal monitor charged with overseeing implementation of the settlement, have been criticized for not doing enough to ensure that Westchester meets its settlement obligations, which include promoting fair housing choice and building 750 units of affordable housing, largely in overwhelmingly white communities that have shunned or discouraged such housing.

The nonprofit Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, the fair housing group that prompted the litigation against Westchester, has a motion pending in U.S. District Court to re-enter the case. Among other things, it questions whether some of the housing units approved by the monitor — Astorino states that 164 units have been OK'd — meet the objectives of the settlement and consent decree, the "overarching goal" of which is "building a more integrated Westchester," as monitor Johnson has said.While housing is available to all applicants for income eligible, the county must affirmatively market units to minorities.

"The executive of the county," said Craig Gurian, executive director of the CDA, "could not have more depth rejected a court order if he had stayed on the steps of school and said," Segregation now , segregation forever. "

The duties on which Astorino hairs from a settlement and consent decree negotiated in 2009 by Andrew Spano administration and approved by HUD and the U.S. District Court. HUD entered the picture after the Anti-Discrimination Center successfully argued in a lawsuit that Westchester had failed to discharge its fair-housing obligations, despite accepting millions of dollars in federal funds and pledging that it had. Astorino opposed the settlement during his successful run for county executive in 2009, but acknowledged his duty to implement it. He has since cast doubt on that pledge.

Deed Restriction Signing – Monday June 27 6:30-7:30p @ 1502 ...

Robert Carter has generously offered his notary services Monday evening from 6:30 to 7:30p.  We will have the new Mandell Place deed restriction additions available for review and documents on hand for your notarized signature.  Robert Carter, Greg Purser (MPCA President) and Anne Hawkins (MPCA Deed Restriction chair) will be at 1502 Kipling Street to collect signatures and discuss the additions to our existing deed restrictions.  If you have not had a chance to sign the new deed restrictions, please take advantage of this opportunity have your signature notarized in the neighborhood.

If more than one person appears as an owner in the Harris County Appraisal District records, both owners will need to sign the document.

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