Long Island affordable housing scaled back


	Long Island affordable housing scaled back

obvious

12-31-2007 11:51 AM

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obvious says:

The developer is using voluntary inclusionary zoning as it is intended: increasing the number of market-rate houses--and therefore his profits--while adding two subsidized lots... until the neighbors showed up. So, instead of 8 large single family homes and 10 affordable homes with 10 affordable apartments, there will be only 2 affordable homes--one 1.5 acre lots!--with 2 apartments.

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