Most people prefer to be around their own kind. When people have a choice, they avoid diversity. They live, work, worship and socialize with their own race.
The right to freedom of association is being taken away from us. As that one freedom goes, so must the rest. Or to say it a different way, a barometer of diminishing freedoms in a multi-cultural society is the ever-diminishing freedom of association.
NYDN: De Blasio is pushing two zoning plans needed to achieve his goal of building 80,000 new affordable apartments and preserving another 120,000 existing ones.
One, known as mandatory inclusionary zoning, would require developers to include affordable housing in projects that need city approval, with options starting at setting aside 25% of apartments for people making an average of $46,000 for a family of four.
That has prompted protests from critics who say apartments are needed for people who make less than that. The levels may be adjusted in negotiations with the City Council before a vote by the end of March.
