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In 1972, residents protested against Forest Hills Houses, a proposed public housing development with three 24-story buildings at 62nd Drive and 108th Street. It was part of Mayor John Lindsay's "scatter-site" plan to construct public housing in neighborhoods that had none (as opposed to concentrating public housing in poor neighborhoods).
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp, 429 U.S. 252 (1977), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States dealing with a zoning ordinance that in a practical way barred families of various socio-economic, and ethno-racial backgrounds from residing in a neighborhood. The Court held that the ordinance ...
Residents were given "shares" of their units as owners, but they were forbidden from selling them to anyone but NYCHA. The Forest Hills Houses were the first co-operative public low-income housing in the city. On the site of the projects was also the Forest Hills Community House, which has programs for projects residents and neighbors of all ages.
The boarded up homes are gone and the developer broke ground on the project Monday.
F.I.G.H.T. Village, the housing development fund founded in 1973 by Minister Franklin Florence Sr., one of Rochester's iconic civil rights leaders, has named a new leader — his son.
Marc FeQuiere, CEO of Haitian Community Network, talks on Nov. 9, 2023, with Haitian asylum seekers at Colonial Village Apartments on Columbus' East Side, where more than 850 Haitian immigrants ...
The Forest Houses are a housing project in Morrisania, Bronx. The project consists of fifteen buildings, 9, 10 and 14-stories tall with 1,350 apartment units. It covers a 17.72-acre expanse, and is bordered by East 163rd and East 166th Streets, and Trinity and Tinton Avenues. It is owned and managed by New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). [1]
In 1961, New York Mayor Wagner planned to redevelop that area with high rise housing. [1] West Village resident Jane Jacobs led an effort to stop that development in favor of the West Village Houses which were smaller-scale and preserved existing structures. [2] Perkins and Will designed the buildings.