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Giuliani was able to make crime his focus during his campaign because he was a prosector. Graduated from NYU law.
Bloomberg rezoned the city for development, allowed universities to expand, remade the city for tourism.
He's a Harvard MBA/CEO.
De Blasio's masters degree is from Columbia in Public Policy. So along those lines he decided to do things like end stop and frisk, integrate the schools, and address issues of disequality because that's what people in public policy do. Though his policies have been INEFFECTIVE on certain fronts.
You don’t need to specialize in a particular area to be effective. De Blasio also claimed he would be making New York more affordable, which has been anything but, given how the developers have been falling over themselves to donate to his campaigns.
Giuliani was able to make crime his focus during his campaign because he was a prosector. Graduated from NYU law.
Bloomberg rezoned the city for development, allowed universities to expand, remade the city for tourism.
He's a Harvard MBA/CEO.
De Blasio's masters degree is from Columbia in Public Policy. So along those lines he decided to do things like end stop and frisk, integrate the schools, and address issues of disequality because that's what people in public policy do. Though his policies have been INEFFECTIVE on certain fronts.
So one guy with practical experience in the justice system, and the other with practical experience as a businessman ran our city pretty well.
Then that Deblasio clown with only liberal academia training in public policy with no real practical experience except being a career politician, ruins our city. Makes sense to me.
Wonder which Columbia class taught him to make almost 1 billion dollars in mental health funding disappear into thin air.
You don’t need to specialize in a particular area to be effective. De Blasio also claimed he would be making New York more affordable, which has been anything but, given how the developers have been falling over themselves to donate to his campaigns.
Lol, quite ironic seeing that we, even here on C-D, had to open up a new subforum for affordable housing.
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You don’t need to specialize in a particular area to be effective. De Blasio also claimed he would be making New York more affordable, which has been anything but, given how the developers have been falling over themselves to donate to his campaigns.
He's never ran a business or have any executive experience. He is less qualified than Obama at being a chief executive. When Bloomberg became mayor, things quickly changed. DeBlasio inherited Bloomberg's legacy and he's doing his best to destroy it.
He failed to understand the basic economic principle which is supply and demand.
Most liberals even AOC failed to understand that socialism only works if the entire land participates. If only your city has socialism, it will fail. Your tax base will leave and the area will be mobbed by the poor eventually you'll be kicked out as the government deficits will eat away at the cost of running socialism.
The city is certainly better off now than it was 20-30 years ago..."unaffordable" housing was the unintended consequence of cleaning up many of the hoods that were causing these problems in the first place.
IMO, the NYT's did an excellent article a few years back about the amount of foreign money and investment into the real estate in the city, which causes housing shortages. Many people who do not live in the 5 boroughs (overseas and in the surrounding counties) buy real estate (apartments, houses etc) as a business venture, and rent them out causing prices to remain high.
The city gets quick buck, but hat eventually happens is that investors naturally want maximize profits and thereby keep the rents and the costs much higher than they normally would. Many owners would rather sit on the real estate and wait it out, than to lower prices to reflect demand. Oddly enough, there are many vacant commercial properties that would otherwise be occupied if not for the same problem.
This impresses you Doc? A few smelly bums and a graffiti tag here or there?
deBlasio has to turn Times Square back into XXX central before I'm impressed
LOL!
Be careful what you wish you for! You may not be able to handle it.
I'm old enough to remember those days, I was there, lol.
Lived in Chelsea. Was young and broke so I would walk to most places in the city to save money.
I walked all over Times Square of yesteryear. You are so right XXX movies houses, XXX video stores, and XXX peep show places where every in the area.
I was so naive and not very "experienced" at the time. Sometimes, in passing, I would look up at the marquee and read the title of the XXX movies and try to process in my head, what in the world, was the plot of the particular movie.
Bill to create 1,000 units of homeless housing per year passes council.
What Council Speaker Corey Johnson called a “revolutionary change in policy” passed in the chamber Thursday and could finally deliver stable housing to families experiencing homelessness.
Intro 1211 by city Councilman Rafael Salamanca, will require housing developers receiving city funds to reserve 15 percent of units for homeless New Yorkers, a goal which will provide affordable housing and bring relief to the city’s shelters which house well over 60,000 people.
“This bill will do more to fight homelessness in New York City than any other actions that has been taken in the last 10 years,” Councilman Stephen Levin said while voting in favor of the bill. “The fact there are 20K children in shelters every night… is something we should all be ashamed of.”
“Building more shelters is not the solution, we need to build more affordable housing and have statutory set-asides for people who have fallen on hard times,” Councilman Eric Ulrich said voting in the affirmative. “Next year we really need to turn the heat on Albany to get them to pony-up to provide funding for a real and robust rental subsidy program.”
The bill will become effective 180 days after Thursday passage.
Be careful what you wish you for! You may not be able to handle it.
I'm old enough to remember those days, I was there, lol.
Lived in Chelsea. Was young and broke so I would walk to most places in the city to save money.
I walked all over Times Square of yesteryear. You are so right XXX movies houses, XXX video stores, and XXX peep show places where every in the area.
I was so naive and not very "experienced" at the time. Sometimes, in passing, I would look up at the marquee and read the title of the XXX movies and try to process in my head, what in the world, was the plot of the particular movie.
This is funny af.
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