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President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency — getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing off...

President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency — getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing off...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The District of Columbia's urban planning and land use goals will be an early order of business for the Council of the District of Columbia (D.C. Council) in the new year. On Jan. 4, 2021, Chairman Phil Mendelson introduced the Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020 (B24-01) – the first bill of Council Period 24. The introduction of this bill serves to revive its predecessor, B23-0736, which had not been agendized for a Council legislative meeting following public hearings last November. This bill is a companion to Bill 23-01, t...

From the tornado. it was an ef-3 tornado. thatst a very strong tornado. winds were 140 miles per hour, and some of the pictures that we've seen, once when the daylight came and the helicopters got up there and gave us pretty incredible, that was the mall area where the home depot was destroyed. an ef-3, the scale goes from 0 to 5, a 5 you wouldn't see those trees and you wont see the house. it would be a clean slab of cement where the house was, but still a very strong tornado. it's amazing no serious injuries, and no fatalities, and that was on the ground for 15 miles through populated areas....

Other country on a daily basis. >> i used to cross it quite frequently when i was there there when i was younger. special me walmart, the mall area, at that time of day, that's where the most people will be in that range, that area. it is very difficult to wrap my head around. it is pre dominantly hispanic. i would vent you are a guess, when you walk into the walmart, you'll mostly hear people speaking spanish or english. we consider ourselves, we're different countries, el paso and the united states and juarez in mexico, but very much integrated on a daily basis. so many people that have fami...