Hasidic neighborhood in the center of Hipster B'klyn is a top beneficiary of Section 8

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Hasidic neighborhood in B'klyn is a top beneficiary of Section 8


New York City’s 123,000 vouchers make this the largest Section 8 voucher program in the country. Reluctant landlords and rising rents are making vouchers nearly impossible to use in many areas of the city. Tenants, especially larger families, are often relegated to the edges of Brooklyn and the Bronx. That’s why this cluster of Hasidic households stands out.

The neighborhood is home to one of the highest concentrations of Section 8 housing vouchers in the city, according to federal data analyzed by WNYC and the Daily News. In several of its census tracts, Section 8 tenants compose more than 30% of residents, a level reached only in scattered pockets of the Bronx.




The difference: In Brooklyn, the Section 8 tenants live smack in the middle of one of the city’s hottest real estate market.

The juxtaposition happened over years, not overnight. Leaders leveraged longstanding political connections to win favorable zoning changes. Local developers bought and built to meet the need. Residents organized to get in line for rental subsidies. Block by block, the community created a de facto free market, affordable housing plan.

It’s only possible in a tight-knit community where the haves help the have-nots, said Rabbi David Niederman, a community leader and local power broker.

“We have people keeping the price lower,” said Niederman, executive director of United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg. “Even a person living on Section 8 can pay the monthly rentals.”

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Vouchers are particularly concentrated into what some call “New Williamsburg,” where the Hasidim have expanded into formerly industrial areas and historically black and Latino Bedford-Stuyvesant.

In the late 1990s, Hasidic developers quietly began to petition the city to let them convert old factories and warehouses — bought cheap — into housing.

Building by building, the Board of Standards and Appeals, a little known quasi-judicial agency, granted the zoning variances in Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy.

An analysis by Brooklyn Legal Services found the board approved buildings containing more than 500 apartments between 1995 and 2000, more approvals than any other area in the city.

In 1999, Legal Services unsuccessfully sued to stop the conversions, arguing the standards board was subverting zoning rules and violating anti-discrimination laws. The suit also claimed the large apartments were designed for Hasidic families and were advertised only in Yiddish-language newspapers, leaving black and Latino residents out in the cold.

“We thought it was a violation of the Fair Housing Act to be marketing and ultimately renting to exclusively Hasidic families,” said Raun Rasmussen, who brought the case and now heads up Legal Services NYC.

In the private market, he said, it was hard to prove anyone other than Hasidic tenants were applying and being turned away.
 

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Skeptics suggest an off-the-books economy has underpinned development within this community. Many residents bank informally and property is regularly swapped between family members and holding companies.

“There’s a cash economy and things are not done strictly according to law,” said Marty Needleman, executive director of Brooklyn Legal Services and a community advocate who has clashed with the Hasidim for years over fair-housing issues.

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I heard and read about those buildings in Williamsburg being rented out to Hasidim only!
 

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No shyt. I pass by them all the time. They're all poor on the books because they do all their business with each other in cash. Then get subsidies from the government. shyt's disgusting.

On an unrelated note, I see them all the time trying to pick up hoes by Marcy projects.
 

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Where's all the supposedly black people who were bytching about the chick in Jordans using food stamps?
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Where's all the supposedly black posters who swear it's just black women pushing out babies for those sweet housing project apartments?
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Prolly won't hear nam from them in this thread though
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Let me tell you something about these Jews, breh...

They take advantage of every possible loophole.

I managed several accounts for Jews that were 1) Self-employed, 2)Rich, and 3) receiving income subsidies.

I asked them about it and they said it's pretty common in our area.

The reason they can do that is because they are self-employed so they can hide their true income and they also have plenty of kids.
 
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