They were supposed to give preference to non-residents?
That does not make sense
Yes it does, from their viewpoint.
How dare people want to live together without the politically correct cultural diversity!
Being forced to accept families from outside your community goes hand-in-hand with Federal funds. Once to take the Emperor’s coin you have to do what the Emperor wants you to do.
So, what’s the long term impact? IMHO there will be fewer and fewer communities that will accept Federal money, even matching funds, if they have to “import” people to achieve the Federally mandated cultural diversity.
Who will suffer? The community’s poor and elderly. Not the federal and State bureaucrats.
My only question on this issue is - Was the Federally and State cultural diversity mandates announced prior to the funding or after?
Oh they're just getting started.
In the future when a town such as Oyster Bay collects the garbage, paves the roads and plows the streets they also need to find some black people in some other town and collect their garbage, pave their roads and plow their streets.
The bottom line is that any town in the country that doesn't have enough blacks living in it can't do anything at all.
They took the federal government’s affordable housing money, they are obliged to abide by the federal government’s rules, which have always included aggressively seeking black and Hispanic tenants in supermajority white areas.
It’s far worse in Westchester County, where the county government broke the rules, but they are trying to make villages and towns which never sought or accepted any affordable housing money, compromise their schools and their safety by building subsidized housing and aggressively recruiting minorities from the Bronx and Yonkers to move in.