"A Brooklyn city councilwoman wants to know why 'blocs' of Asians are living in two Fort Greene housing projects � and suggested it would be 'beneficial' to assign housing by ethnic group."

"'How is it that one specific ethnic group has had the opportunity to move into a development in large numbers?' Laurie Cumbo, who is black, said at a council hearing on public housing Thursday."

Cumbo issued an apology, saying she only wanted to know if the New York City Housing Authority �uses a cultural preference priority component� in picking tenants....

Still, Cumbo told The Post, �There could be some benefit to housing people by culture... I think it needs to be discussed.�

Yeesh. Reminds me of the trouble Jimmy Carter go into 40 years ago when he campaigned (in Indiana, of all places) saying that he wouldn't use the federal government to "circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnically homogenous neighborhoods":

In making the point, he used unusually blunt language about social differences � about "black intrusion" into white neighborhoods, for example. He spoke of "alien groups" in communities, and of the bad effects of "injecting" a "diametrically opposite kind of person" into a neighborhood....

He said, "I have nothing against a community that's made up of people who are Polish or Czechoslovakian, or French-Canadian, or black, who are trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods."