Southampton Town Justice Court Candidate John Ortiz Wants To Give Back to His 'Forever Home'
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John Ortiz
John Ortiz
Tom Gogola on Nov 1, 2023
John Ortiz says that even though he “put people in jail for a long time,” it wasn’t an overnight process for him to decide to run for Southampton Town Justice... more
It’s tempting to say that, when it comes to the affordable housing crisis on the South Fork, the hard part is over — the heavy lifting that it took to get the Community Housing Fund approved in Albany, and by local voters in a referendum, was no small feat. Now that it’s in place, the money is flowing freely: Just a year in, both Southampton and East Hampton towns already have upward of $10 million to spend. For years, the lamentation was “if only we had the money …” Full marks to everyone who addressed that. But an Express Sessions ...
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