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Yonkers was a city with a reputation for racial tension in the 1980s and 1990s. This was due to a long-running battle between the NAACP and the city over the construction of low-income housing projects. The city had planned to only use federal funds for urban renewal in Downtown Yonkers. Other groups, led by the NAACP, thought that the concentration of low-income housing within traditionally poor areas would lead to poverty. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development warned the City of Yonkers in 1971 against any further construction of low-income housing west of Yonkers. However, the city continued to support subsidized housing there between 1972 and 1977.
Yonkers gained national/international attention during the summer of 1988 when it backed out of its previous agreement to build promised municipal public housing in the eastern portions of the city, an agreement it had made in a consent decree after losing an appeal in 1987. The federal courts found the city in contempt after its reversal. Judge Sand issued a $100 fine to Yonkers, which was doubled each day. Until Yonkers surrendered to the federally mandated plan, an appeals court capped it at $1 million per day.
