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COMMENTS: The Projects Come to Scarsdale
Westchester County in the northern suburbs of New York City is "one of the richest counties in the country and one of the whitest," Byron Pitts showed us on CBS, displaying a chart of its demography: "The lighter the map, the lighter the skin of the people who live there." Yet the county qualifies for $180m in federal subsidies to build affordable housing for low-income tenants and homebuyers. After three years it has settled a lawsuit over the location of the resulting 750 units: "At least 84% of those homes need to be in mostly white communities."
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