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Latino, African-American Applicants Unfairly Denied Sandy Relief Funds?

Latino, African-American Applicants Unfairly Denied Sandy Relief Funds?
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Editor, Black Voices

Tom Hammill places an American flag at a building site in the Breezy Point neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, a year after Superstorm Sandy struck. A firestorm spread across the beachfront neighborhood during the storm, burning more than 100 homes, including Hammill's. Behind him are homes that are being rebuilt. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Tom Hammill places an American flag at a building site in the Breezy Point neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, a year after Superstorm Sandy struck. A firestorm spread across the beachfront neighborhood during the storm, burning more than 100 homes, including Hammill's. Behind him are homes that are being rebuilt. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Local housing rights organization Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC) says it has obtained data from the Christie Administration that shows that Latino and African-American residents applying for two major Sandy relief programs were denied by the state at higher rates than their Caucasian counterparts.

According to the FSHC, 35-percent of African American applicants and 18-percent of Latino applicants applying to the Homeowner Reconstruction, Rehabilitation Elevation and Mitigation (RREM) program were rejected by the state; while 13-percent of Caucasian applicants were denied from the same program.

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