In New York City, with more than 300,000 cooperative apartment units,
fair housing laws will never be truly effective in the coop context so
long as the coop admissions process is ruled by secrecy.
How can it be that the federal government stands idly by while members of the LGBT community are discriminated against in the housing that the federal government itself has funded or otherwise assisted?
Racially segregated, high poverty neighborhoods are a continuing reality in many American cities. Congress has an opportunity to to reinvigorate two of the program’s original goals of housing choice and deconcentration of poverty.
