Hofstra Law Professor Stefan Krieger was featured in the Newsday article “Tenants beat the odds, leading to more affordable housing in Farmingdale.”
Excerpt
Ten years after that landmark decision, a $35 million workforce affordable housing development will open in June in Farmingdale — a village whose leaders back then were accused of trying to push out an expanding population of immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
Today, some housing and community activists consider Farmingdale an example of how a grassroots effort on a shoestring budget can lead to affordable housing and ethnic diversity in a community where both had been largely missing.
“All in all, this was a real success,” said Stefan Krieger, a law professor at Hofstra University who, along with his students, represented the tenants in the Farmingdale court battle.
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