New York City plans to attack economic segregation by moving poor into middle-class neighborhoods, richer into poverty spots (Prediction: Before NYC becomes quite as bad as Mad Max's Bartertown, without Bartertown's admirable social cohesion, it will elect another law and order GOP mayor, who will institute a crackdown and end some of the goofier social programs--all the while praising diversity and high immigration to the skies.)

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City plans to attack economic segregation by moving poor into middle-class neighborhoods, richer into poverty spots

The City plans to attack economic segregation in its affordable housing plan — placing the poor in middle-class neighborhoods and the more affluent in high-poverty spots.

Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been said the plan to build 80,000 new affordable apartments and preserve 120,000 units would create a more diverse city.

“We really have to make economic diversity a cornerstone of that plan,” she said at a City Council budget hearing Wednesday.

“That means that in some neighborhoods that have mostly middle or upper-income housing, that we would need to put affordable housing at the very lowest income,” she said.

“But in some communities where we have a great deal of poverty . . . we would try to bring more moderate (-income housing) into those neighborhoods, to try to achieve the kind of diversity that we want,” Been said. . . .

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