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The fear in East New York is that if de Blasio's plan to allow the construction of a number more market rate units in East New York goes through it will push them out of the neighborhood altogether.
The fear in East New York is that if de Blasio's plan to allow the construction of a number more market rate units in East New York goes through it will push them out of the neighborhood altogether.
Wouldn't care about the interior sections of Brooklyn and Queens. Those areas are depressed for good reasons, location location.
Anyone that has taken the train or driven around knows how pita it is and the lack of highways and multiple transit choices can be poor choices to live.
I am genuinely confused on how the mayor's affordable housing strategy helps anyone except real estate developers. It is almost like he took an even more aggressive approach than Bloomberg in accelerating gentrification of NYC. While his current voting base will benefit from subsidize housing for the next 30 years, people are going to get upset real quick once affordable housing policy expires and the apartments are either converted to market rate or sold to affluent people.
I am genuinely confused on how the mayor's affordable housing strategy helps anyone except real estate developers. It is almost like he took an even more aggressive approach than Bloomberg in accelerating gentrification of NYC. While his current voting base will benefit from subsidize housing for the next 30 years, people are going to get upset real quick once affordable housing policy expires and the apartments are either converted to market rate or sold to affluent people.
The bold type say's it all. In 30 years it will be another Mayor's problem.
I am genuinely confused on how the mayor's affordable housing strategy helps anyone except real estate developers. It is almost like he took an even more aggressive approach than Bloomberg in accelerating gentrification of NYC. While his current voting base will benefit from subsidize housing for the next 30 years, people are going to get upset real quick once affordable housing policy expires and the apartments are either converted to market rate or sold to affluent people.
These are not rent control units. They are probably permanent affordable units, with rents pegged to the area's average household income but that's just my guess. We haven't heard the details yet.
The other option if you don't agree with the mayor, is to just not build anything and not add any supply, in which case, housing costs which is already crazy expensive, would go through the roof.
The people on this board seems to be clueless on why housing is so expensive in this city.
Anyone that has taken the train or driven around knows how pita it is and the lack of highways and multiple transit choices can be poor choices to live.
Isn't the area near the ENY LIRR and Broadway Junction subway hub?
They are probably permanent affordable units, with rents pegged to the area's average household income but that's just my guess. We haven't heard the details yet.
There is no such thing as permenent affordable units. There no government funding for that anymore. NYCHA has been crying poor and planning to sell their property because they lack the funding to maintain the buildings.
I wish people would move to a cheaper state instead of seeking welfare from tax payer to maintain their luxury lifestyle in NYC.
There is no such thing as permenent affordable units. There no government funding for that anymore. NYCHA has been crying poor and planning to sell their property because they lack the funding to maintain the buildings.
I wish people would move to a cheaper state instead of seeking welfare from tax payer to maintain their luxury lifestyle in NYC.
Other states don't hand out freebies and luxury apartments left and right. People actually have to work for a living there and nobody cares when they scream that they feel entitled to something.
There is no such thing as permenent affordable units. There no government funding for that anymore. NYCHA has been crying poor and planning to sell their property because they lack the funding to maintain the buildings.
I wish people would move to a cheaper state instead of seeking welfare from tax payer to maintain their luxury lifestyle in NYC.
You don't know what you are talking about. We are not talking about those 1950's urban renewal NYCHA housing projects. That Moses era model did not work. This is 2015, not 1960. There is a program in place for a few decades now called Inclusionary Housing Program and it does work, just needs more of it.
The Inclusionary Housing Program requires a percentage of the dwelling units within a building to be set aside, or new or rehabilitated affordable units be provided off-site within the same community district or within one-half mile of the bonused development. All affordable residential units created through the Inclusionary Housing Program must remain permanently affordable. Affordable apartments may be rental units or, under modifications made to the program in 2009, available in an ownership plan.
And you're ridiculous with your luxury lifestyle assertion. Most people are not living in luxury. Quite the contrary, many pay ridiculous rents for old, scruffy apartments in the city. As for your moving to another state quip, this city would turn into a ghost town if everyone that aren't rich were to leave.
There would be no restaurants, no hotels, no stores, no subways, no deliveries, no cops, no firefighters, no teachers, no nurses, no nannies, no cab drivers, no fresh direct, no dog walkers, no postal workers, no plumbers, no nothing because all or most of the workers that make a city operate would be better off living in another state. If that were to happen, even those that can afford to live in the city, would bolt as well because there would be nothing here.
A healthy city (and this is clearly a city heading in the wrong direction) has room for everybody that wants to come, live and work (or go to school) here. If the balance is not maintained, then the government needs to step in. All great cities in the world has some kind of government intervention.
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