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I don't really care to be an expert on the different levels of welfare housing, but if makes you feel so much better to be so detailed on the differences between shelters and SROs be my guest.
Well, I am here and have spent my life here - not just born and then lived who-knows-where.
It's telling that the de Bozio supporter's main way of defending their buffoon is to falsely accuse his critics of living outside the city.
...or as paid shills.
Funny how those who rant that he hasn't done anything wrong can't state anything that he has accomplished, ever. Although, I suppose that is by design since he is never present in the city to truly accomplish anything of note, positive or negative.
Public advocate, such an honorable and necessary position.
I like De Blasio. I think he just made a crucial mistake in terms of his relaxed stance on policing. As I said before, he should have enhanced aggressive policing, and reformed stop and frisk. It should have been implemented to target well known criminals, not minorities who fit a certain stereotypical profile. He should have also ensured that public housing cops practically live at NYCHA developments. Because of his views on these procedures, he's being overly criticized the most. A lot of people are trying to strictly blame him for the affordable housing crisis, which is amazingly asinine and unfair. Bloomberg has a plethora of developers in real estate as buddies, who helped him reach his goal in creating the affordable housing he promised under his administration. These same developers now have to go through De Blasio to sign off on anything. It seems that he's being pretty progressive in terms of preserving units for the low and mid income. Clearly, without a doubt, the backlash that De Blasio is facing is coming from those of high-income. They're in their feels because De Blasio is not beckoning to their every want and need. Everything else, in terms of addressing average citizens problems he seems to be very proactive on.
UWS was far from "rotting", especially the blocks off CPW where much of the activity took place. Fast forward to today and those SRO places are badly needed by working persons who cannot afford sky high rental prices.
By today here in 2015 I bet most of those places would've been condemned anyway due to poor living conditions. I actually support the SRO model TBH, but not in areas where prime tax-generating real estate is located.
The US also support murderous regimes as well. Look at Saudi family which is backed by the US which be beheads persons for consuming alcohol. Or us supported right ring governments in Latin America to counter left wing governments. A good example of this is in Argentina where 30k were executed. Look at Israel which is supported by both liberals and conservatives by a lobby called aipac. The US along with DC and wall Street helped fund Afghan rebels against the soviets. Those same folks later became to taliban which harbored al qaeda which rammed Jets into infrastructure of power in NYC and DC. Right now the US is helping to fund al qaeda and isis in Syria to push Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies. Those extremist groups kill people for silliest reasons like chewing gum or even being of another faith, yet being funded by us and it's allies.
An even better example are the U.S. backed Contras that usurped the Sandanistas. They not only went on to smuggle coke into the U.S. But they also slaughtered tens of thousands of men, women and children in Nicaragua and raped, tortured and mutilated tens of thousands more. People need to leave the bogus anti-communist rhetoric back in the cold-war era where it belongs, that argument about him supporting the Sandanistas is dated.
By today here in 2015 I bet most of those places would've been condemned anyway due to poor living conditions. I actually support the SRO model TBH, but not in areas where prime tax-generating real estate is located.
I see what you mean as far as valuable real estate goes, but the problem is for SRO's to be effective they have to be located in areas where these people can have access to resources that will get them off their feet and off the streets if they are mentally capable. If we put them in far out places, these people will become dependent even longer term and it will eventually become a financial drain.
Like I said before: no accomplishments. He'll finish this term having done nothing substantial other than having spread his name and what he stands for (but doesn't do). Then he'll get reelected because, you know, if you don't fawn over him you are - insert insult here - and then he'll run for a higher office.
Typical democrat BS: fawning over a celebrity politician who fails to accomplish any goals or improve the lives of those he represents, even in a city with zero political opposition to his plans.
Ok, I've said this in another thread and I'll say it again. Universal Pre-K, Keeping crime down (in spite of sensationalized headlines), expanding after school programs keeping kids off the streets, getting the ball rolling for Sandy victims (financed or gave construction assistance to 60% of those enrolled in the program, albeit many dropped out during the Bloomberg years due to inactivity), settled contracts with a majority of the city unions (with whom the previous admin. was playing kick the can with), businesses must provide paid sick-leave...frankly what the man is mostly at fault for other than chronic lateness and social awkwardness is terrible PR.
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