Fair Housing, RULIPA, and Other Laws About to Be Violated

Part 2 of our coverage of the June 3rd, 2024 Town of Monroe Board meeting and a note concerning this Friday's Village Board meeting in South Blooming Grove.

Welcome back.

Here is part one of my coverage of the June 3rd, 2024 Town of Monroe Board meeting.

Before we get into part two, I wanted to touch on something real quick:

This Friday, at 10:30am, the Village of South Blooming Grove will hold their meeting. It was supposed to be held on June 10th, but again, was cancelled at the last minute and hastily rescheduled for Friday morning at 10:30am.

Why, might you ask?

Because the topic of this particular meeting is the Fair Housing Act. Specifically, the Village is (or soon, will be) in need of passing a resolution that affirms their support of the law and pledge to uphold it.

They need to do this in order to qualify for specific types of grants. (The Town of Chester recently passed a similar resolution for the same reason, in order to apply for such a grant.)

There is likely also going to be a discussion concerning The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RULIPA.)

RULIPA is basically used in our area by wealthy developers in the…