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A federal monitor wasted little time in sending Westchester County officials back to the drawing board after deeming an implementation plan to build 750 units of new and affordable housing “vague” and lacking “specificity with respect to accountability, time frames and processes.”

As part of an unprecedented $51.6 million settlement reached with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last August that requires Westchester to construct 750 fair and affordable housing units in predominantly white and affluent municipalities over the next seven years, the county was required to detail how it would comply by the end of January.  more »