 The New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal was also named as a defendant in the suit because it had oversight of the public money spent to build the project and allowed the quotas to exist.The case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court in the fall of 1988, and the court ruled against Starrett.In 1990, Starrett proposed to make apartments available to Soviet Jews who came to the United States in order to maintain racial diversity.