Since state law requires such proposals receive community approval, the organization submitted its plan to Community Board 10.
What was sadly missing from Cameron's speech, he adds, were proposals on community sentences for short-term prisoners and proposals to dramatically reduce the female population.
Urban poor federations and supporting NGOs in the network submit proposals for community projects, which are evaluated by a council of long-time federation leaders, including Molokoane.
It agreed to educate residents, real estate agents and landlords about fair-housing issues, to solicit housing development proposals from community leaders and groups, and to identify municipalities that were persistent in excluding minorities.
"While there are no changes planned at this time, we review all proposals from community boards and always base decisions on an evaluation of the data," a Transportation Department spokesman, Seth Solomonow, wrote in an e-mail.
Sanders met in Washington last week with racial justice activists who called for him to get more specific with his proposals for community and criminal justice reform, even as the senator introduced new legislation to phase out private prisons.
The revisions provided little comfort, however, to those with stronger misgivings about the proposal, including community groups, preservationists and even some landlords who worry that the proposal is needlessly rushed and could result in a drastic increase in density in a neighborhood where the public transportation system is already overwhelmed.
"We are hoping the Cyberian Outpost board will agree it is an excellent proposal and outweighs -- and is superior to -- PC Connection's proposal," Manuel Valerio, community relations manager for Fry's, said last week.
Google said that over the next six weeks it would solicit proposals from communities interested in the service.
Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president, said this week that the mayor's staff was at least receptive to his overtures, most recently on a proposal for community policing.
