Affordable housing hypocrisy expands.

Common Council members should send us a Candygram when they implement affordable housing policy which actually puts their skin in the game: "affordable people" live near them and CC members actually subsidize affordable housing policy themselves.

Affordable Housing: the hypocrisy Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Common Council members all live in houses in the suburbs of White Plains and so are not directly affected. The last thing they want is an affordable person moving into the house next to theirs...

CC members pretend to represent all WP residents but they represent only the interests of those who live in houses in the suburbs of WP. This is another example of why WP needs CC members elected by district, not at large.
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Affordable Housing Tour Sunday, December 21, 2008

Who pays for affordable housing? Wednesday, February 3, 2016

First of all, it's affordable apartments. There may be a few condos, probably adjacent to the interstate highway, but no houses. White Plains decision makers live in houses and are immune to any impact of "affordable housing"...

House owners do not have 10% of the houses on their block occupied by "affordable housing" people. Nor are they paying more in property taxes to make up for "affordable housing" people paying less...

The "market rate" renters in the other 90% of apartments are making up the difference. Do White Plains decision makers know? Do they ask?
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Common Council continues hypocrisy of affordable housing (apartments). Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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https://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=783

City of White Plains News
Posted on: February 27, 2019
Expansion of Affordable Rental Housing Program Proposed

... since 2003 ... expand the City’s Affordable Rental Housing Program (ARHP) in several ways ...

The proposal is currently being discussed by the Common Council and will ultimately require the passage of a local ordinance and amendments to the City’s Zoning Ordinance
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