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Well, that's an interesting way of looking at it, but duh! 60% of the "affordable" units are set for 110% AMI. They don't gotta be white Radeon, but the reality is that folks making 110% of AMI in Brooklyn are more likely to be white than black or Hispanic.
Title of post is rather off the mark as the OP linked article was about *ONE* specific affordable housing unit. Saying "likely to get affordable units in Brooklyn" implies it is a borough wide phenomenon, which thus far have seen no evidence supporting that claim.
As for the Daily News article in general it is a hit piece designed to stir the pot. Playing upon fears of gentrification in that "poor blacks and Hispanic/Latinos" are being pushed out of their neighborhood by whites.
Title of post is rather off the mark as the OP linked article was about *ONE* specific affordable housing unit. Saying "likely to get affordable units in Brooklyn" implies it is a borough wide phenomenon, which thus far have seen no evidence supporting that claim.
As for the Daily News article in general it is a hit piece designed to stir the pot. Playing upon fears of gentrification in that "poor blacks and Hispanic/Latinos" are being pushed out of their neighborhood by whites.
Good points. Most of these developments are more like 30-40% AMI, not 110%, run the neighborhood numbers for those ones and you'll undoubtedly see the racial numbers move around quite a bit.
Good points. Most of these developments are more like 30-40% AMI, not 110%, run the neighborhood numbers for those ones and you'll undoubtedly see the racial numbers move around quite a bit.
It is the hypocrisy of certain persons that get's me.
Somehow it is perfectly fine and should be encouraged for blacks and Latino-Hispanics to move into predominately white areas of NYC, even if they are low income and or otherwise never would qualify. However when it comes to whites and the other way around, then we hear a different story.
Then we somehow must *protect* Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bushwick, and so forth.
These very same people who write/support articles such as that in the OP linked story are pushing to end CB preferences for affordable housing. I for one hope they succeed because they don't have a clue, and won't know until it hits them. Yes, you *might* get a small increase in "diversity" for Manhattan below 96th Street, and parts of Brooklyn (mostly downtown), but on the whole areas such as the Bronx, Harlem, Inwood, North Shore of Staten Island, Eastern Brooklyn and so forth will see a huge influx of whites.
Wow what? What are you proposing in the alternative? Eliminating CB preferences? CB preferences were established to limit displacement of area residents. Is it a perfect fix? No but it helps. Do you want them to stop white people from being eligible for these units? That's not happening.
Wow what? What are you proposing in the alternative? Eliminating CB preferences? CB preferences were established to limit displacement of area residents. Is it a perfect fix? No but it helps. Do you want them to stop white people from being eligible for these units? That's not happening.
At this particular development it would be nice to see the majority of the affordable units be at an AMI closer to what the AMI of the community actually is, which is around 60% AMI IIRC, nowhere near the 110% AMI the majority of the affordable units are priced for.
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