Typical flaky government. Who exactly initiated affirmative action? What am I missing here?
This seems similar to what happened with the Williamsburg, Brooklyn housing development/projects years ago. It went something like this, IIRC. In the sixties, NYC evicted or used eminent domain to get people to move away from the blocks the city wanted to build high rise “projects” on. These people, many of them Jewish, were promised cheap rental housing once the projects were constructed – which I believe they got. Additionally, most likely because they lived in the neighborhood already, and were largely Holocaust survivors in need of affordable housing, many more Jews moved into said projects.
20 plus years later, minority organizations sued as they claimed the Jews were disproportionately represented in the Williamsburg projects, to their detriment. So to pacify the minorities, the housing agencies “legally” stopped renting to Jews. Jews already living there weren’t happy that the projects were slowly becoming “Judenrein” so Jewish organizations sued, and “won” a victory (or more likely settled) that those Jews that opt to move out of the projects will be given Section 8 vouchers when eligible. Most of these projects are now drug dens, like in the rest of NYC.
I may be wrong about some details, as my memory is not perfect, so correct me if I’m wrong.
Moral of the story: when trying to fix something, first do no harm.