New York City’s practice of giving neighborhood residents priority for affordable housing built in their vicinity will be dramatically reduced under a settlement of a landmark lawsuit that charged this so-called community preference aggravated racial segregation. Currently 50% of any affordable units offered through the city’s housing lotteries must go to residents of the neighborhoods […]

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