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NAACP, builder settle HUD housing discrimination case in Spring Valley

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Parkview Condos Spring Valley Photo: John Meore/The Journal News

“The NAACP and Park View Condominiums have reached a financial settlement on the civil rights organization’s allegations that only religious Jews were offered housing in the complex on Main Street and Maple Avenue.

The NAACP filed a complaint in 2013 with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development alleging that Route 45 LLC discriminated against potential buyers who were not ultra-Orthodox Jews based on their race, religion and national origin. [Read more…]

East Ramapo: African-American trustee’s term cut in half

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Photo of East Ramapo Board member Sabrina Charles-Pierre

Sabrina Charles-Pierre Photo by Steve Lieberman/The Journal News

“A local NAACP chapter is criticizing the East Ramapo school board after an African-American trustee’s term was cut in half because the district failed to swear her into office in time.

But the board, while acknowledging it made an administrative error by not swearing in Trustee Sabrina Charles-Pierre within 30 days of the election results being certified, said it took corrective action Tuesday to ensure she remains on the board by appointing her to a one-year term.

Charles-Pierre was initially appointed to the board in October to fill a vacancy after Trustee Juan Pablo Ramirez resigned. During the May school board election, she ran unopposed to serve the remainder of the term, which is due to expire in June 2018.

Her term now expires in May 2017. [Read more…]