It took deceit on a grand scale for Greenwich builder Richard P. Harris to be selected by the Greenburgh Town Board for the WestHELP housing complex’s $25.7 million lease. Harris was unknown to the Westchester affordable housing world in November when he submitted a proposal with his purported partner, The… Read More →
Greenburgh taxpayers can look forward to an infusion of revenue from the county’s WestHELP complex following Tuesday’s action by the Town Board, with the panel choosing a Connecticut company that has promised the municipality $500,000 a year over the next 18 years. The action will bring to the rental housing… Read More →
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s latest gambit in his defiance of the federal fair-housing consent decree would have the county sue the US Department of Housing and Urban Development over its threat to withhold $7.4 million in federal funding. Edgemont civic leader Robert Bernstein told Tax Watch on Sunday that… Read More →
A for-profit affordable-housing developer from Larchmont today upped his bid to win the lease for Westchester County’s WestHELP apartments, which Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says the town intends to rent. In a letter to Feiner, which was obtained by Tax Watch, Dale Kauftiel, principal of HarborView Properties of Larchmont… Read More →
The White Plains/Greenburgh branch of the NAACP, which went to federal court in the late 1980s to fight opponents of the WestHELP homeless complex, on Saturday called on town officials and Westchester County to support the 1990 WestHELP agreement and rent the vacant apartments to low- and moderate-income residents. The… Read More →
County Legislator Bernice Spreckman, the leading voice for seniors on the Westchester County Legislature, said yesterday the WestHELP apartments should be razed because the units “are not suitable for seniors.” Spreckman, R-Yonkers, made her comments in response to questions from Tax Watch, about her support for the plan by Ferncliff… Read More →
Tax Watch columnist David McKay Wilson will moderate a panel regarding efforts underway to stop demolition of the WestHELP housing complex, which will be held Mon. Jan. 14 at the monthly meeting of the Greenburgh-White Plains chapter of the NAACP. The panel discussion, at 7:30 p.m., will be held at… Read More →
A promising proposal to rebuild the WestHELP homeless complex for affordable housing emerged Tuesday as Alec Roberts, of the White Plains-based Community Housing Innovations detailed his plan to invest up to $3 million to create 108 units for senior citizens. It’s the kind of plan contemplated by county and town… Read More →
