Anti-Discrimination Center

03/09/2021

NYC is one of the MOST RESIDENTIALLY SEGREGATED major cities in the whole country, but most local politicians, including most of this year’s crop of MAYORAL CANDIDATES, stay well clear of confronting the issue.

Let’s help them begin to focus.

12/03/2020

Daily News calls for New York City to end its discriminatory "preference" policy in housing lotteries.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-housing-lottery-20201128-vp6r345dc5cmnlmqf7hee2gtuq-story.html

Have you been hurt by the policy? Go to http://communitypreference.nyc.

Does Mayor de Blasio, who won election on a promise to end the “tale of two cities,” want to weaken or entrench racial segregation in New York City?

08/30/2020

Errol Louis interviews ADC's Craig Gurian on Trump fair housing rollback. According to Gurian, “The racism and the ignorance are unmistakable. It’s a very easy formula that President Trump is trying to sell: Black is poor; Black is bad; Black is dangerouss; be very frightened.” Gurian added: “Hopefully, there will be fewer people buying that than there were 50 years ago.” Full interview: http://antibiaslaw.com/node/3816 (originally aired 8/13/20).

08/26/2020

Because the president so clearly relishes the continuation of the residentially segregated status quo, it is easy to see that the real danger comes from him. But what about those who pretend that they want to affirmatively further fair housing?

Ben Carson, President Trump’s usually low-profile Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is being rewarded with a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention Thursday evening.

08/26/2020

Residential segregation represents a pernicious form of social engineering. Affirmatively furthering fair housing is not about taking away or blaming. It is about opening up to all Americans those communities (suburban or urban) that feature good schools, safe streets, quality medical care, and well-tended parks and recreational facilities.

A lack of federal enforcement means most U.S. states and localities have failed to take meaningful steps to “affirmatively further fair housing.”

08/26/2020

From the Remapping Debate archive: For all the talk of "civil justice reform" and the need to curb rampant litigiousness in the U.S., there hasn’t been a peep about an important benefit to one class of litigants that is deeply baked into the current system. Unlike individuals who have to bear their own litigation costs in all cases where they lose and in almost all categories of cases even where they win, the tax code provides that businesses may deduct all of their legal expenses (for lawyer and expert fees, and for discovery costs) in all cases — win or lose, meritorious or non-meritorious, plaintiff or defendant.

Recognizing that public policy making involves choice, not submission to inevitable facts of life that always have been and always need to be.

08/26/2020

Paternalism hall-of-fame: NYC won't honor the choices that actual New Yorkers choose to make about where they want to live. Learn more: https://communitypreference.nyc It's a deeply discriminatory housing lottery system.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-in-housing-separate-remains-unequal-20200719-3tyhtet2djg2lmmazchtpipshy-story.html

The consequences of the national disgrace of profound residential segregation — including disparities in education, policing, exposure to environmental toxins, and mortality from COVID-19 — have finally begun to be more widely appreciated. Yet politicians continue to pander to those who like the...

08/26/2020

From the Remapping Debate archive: Mike Alberti's award-winning 4-part series on Detroit, its suburbs, and the failure to imagine a regional approach. http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/detroit’s-woes-can-be-eased-regions-officials-avert-their-eyes

Recognizing that public policy making involves choice, not submission to inevitable facts of life that always have been and always need to be.

08/25/2020

That hundreds of thousands of apartments were lost to rent regulations was NOT an accident. Learn more: antibiaslaw.com/cake.pdf

The definitive article on New York's anti-tenant movement.

"Let Them Rent Cake: George Pataki, Market Ideology, and the Attempt to Dismantle Rent Regulation in New York.

Read it here: antibiaslaw.com/cake.pdf

08/25/2020

The definitive article on New York's anti-tenant movement.

"Let Them Rent Cake: George Pataki, Market Ideology, and the Attempt to Dismantle Rent Regulation in New York.

Read it here: antibiaslaw.com/cake.pdf