Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary

with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

Affordable housing policy has become a divisive issue in New York's Westchester County,

just as it has in other municipalities across the country.

The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has pushed Westchester to finance hundreds of subsidized housing units

and market them to poor minorities. While the goal of deconcentrating poverty has merit,

is the way the feds are going about it going to do more harm than good. Joining me to discuss

what's going on in Westchester and how it could affect other communities is Howard Hussock,

Vice President for Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

His article from City Journal's Spring issue is entitled Unfair Fair Housing.

Howard, thank you for joining me.

Good to be with you, Brian.

Your piece opens in Chappaqua, the wealthy Westchester town where Bill and Hillary Clinton

have a home.

Describe for listeners exactly what's happening there with regard to this affordable

housing policy battle.

Chappaqua is a village in the county of Westchester, which is a relatively affluent but not uniformly

affluent county in New York State, just north of New York City. And the Department of Housing

and Urban Development is pushing, as you put it, Westchester, because of a lawsuit to locate

subsidized housing, low-income housing, in affluent parts of the county.

And you don't get a lot more affluent than Chappaqua.

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