# Scholar-In-Residence Gary Friedland comments on manipulation of census tracts in Jersey City

1 Faculty News July 5, 2017 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from the [LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-kushner-jersey-city-2017-story.html) -- "[Gary Friedland](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/business-society-program/faculty-staff/scholarinresidence/scholarinresidence), an expert in real estate finance at New York University who has called for reforms in the EB-5 program, said the manipulation of census tracts is so common that 'if it was not the Kushners, you wouldn’t be writing about \[it\].'"

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