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Discussed housing insecurity and high rent burdens facing low-income families in New Rochelle.
City Council Meeting - Oct 13, 2026 · 1:06:12 →First-time speaker sharing that 'affordable' lottery units actually cost nearly $2,000 plus mandatory fees, forcing residents to park in municipal lots.
Planning Meeting - Feb 24, 2026 · 2:37:23 →News & external sources (10)
Four-Part Investigation Challenges Wall Street Journal’s New Rochelle Housing Miracle Claims
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (October 27, 2026) — Journalist Robert Cox has published a four-part investigation in Words in Edgewise challenging claims by The Wall Street Journal, housing-policy organizations and Gov. Kathy Hochul that New Rochelle’s downtown re...
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle — Part IV: How New York’s Governor Embraced the Economic Absurdity Behind a Supposed Housing Miracle
New Rochelle’s downtown redevelopment attracted billions of dollars in investment and transformed the city, but did adding a few thousand apartments really cause rents to fall in an eight-million-unit metropolitan housing market? In the final install...
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle — Part III: How a Housing Miracle Became National Conventional Wisdom
The Wall Street Journal’s questionable claims about falling rents in New Rochelle spread rapidly through national television, real estate publications, think tanks and housing-policy organizations. The same statistics were repeated so often that New ...
Affordable 2-Bedroom Apartment In Westchester Now Accepting Applications
Monthly rent for the 2-bed, 2-bath apartment will be $1975 for those meeting household and income requirements.
Four-Part Investigation Challenges Wall Street Journal’s New Rochelle Housing Miracle Claims
Four-Part Investigation Challenges Wall Street Journal’s New Rochelle Housing Miracle Claims Talk of the Sound
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle—Part I: How a Housing Miracle Was Built on Cherry-Picked Rent Data
New Rochelle was celebrated nationally as a model for lowering rents, but an independent examination of nearly a decade of Apartment List data reveals that rents actually increased by nearly 20 percent. The investigation also raises questions about t...
DOJ Sues Stagg Group Over Disability Access at 26 Garden Street, Site of New Rochelle Chemical Incident
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (October 26, 2026) — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Stagg Group, alleging that the developer violated the Fair Housing Act by failing to make hundreds of apartments accessible to peopl...
The Great Wall Street Journal Hoax of New Rochelle, Part II: The Rent Data Is Not for Downtown
The Wall Street Journal and Pew Charitable Trusts celebrated New Rochelle’s downtown redevelopment as a housing affordability success, but the rental statistics they relied upon measure the entire city, not downtown. Records obtained under the Freedo...
A New Affordable Homeownership Lottery Launches in New Rochelle
A New Affordable Homeownership Lottery Launches in New Rochelle 914inc.com
Three Generations of Women Under One Roof in Westchester
Three Generations of Women Under One Roof in Westchester The New York Times