POLL: Affordable Housing Forum in Rye; HUD Monitor to Attend
Rye Free Reading Room is the location for a League of Women Voters panel on the Fair and Affordable Housing settlement. Take our poll on the issue.
Compliance with the HUD settlement relating to Fair and Affordable Housing is a topic that never fails to generate impassioned debate among Westchester residents. A forum at Rye Free Reading Room tonight sponsored by the League of Women Voters- Rye, Rye Brook and Port Chester chapter should prove no exception.
The non-partisan organization has assembled a group of panelists that cannot fail to spark community interest and discussion:
- James Johnson, Federal Housing Monitor
- Janet Hostetler, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Norma Drummond, Deputy Commissioner, Westchester County Department of Planning
- Mary Mahon, Senior Assistant to the County Executive
- Joan Feinstein, Mayor, Rye Brook
- Doug French, Mayor, Rye
- Dennis Pilla, Mayor, Port Chester
- Lou Larizza, Affordable Housing Builder
The forum begins at 7:30 p.m.
Rye Patch will continue to cover the impact of the county settlement on Rye and Rye Brook. What questions do you have for tonight's panelists? What are the most important issues for the community?
Tell us in the comments.
Bob Zahm
1:06 am on Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Regardless of what it's called, fullfilling the settlement is all about providing subsidized housing to a set of "lottery" winners. The subsidy comes in the form of County and Federal aid / loans for construction and in the form of use of local services without the equivalent level of payment (taxes) made by other residents.