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Mayor Bill de Blasio rejoiced Tuesday over what appears to be great strides in creating more affordable housing for the city, as promised by 2026.
Even with the pandemic turbulence, de Blasio said, 2020 nevertheless marked the creation of over 30,000 homes. It’s the second highest one-year total in creation for affordable housing in New York City’s history.
“It’s something amazing and we plan to keep that progress going,” the mayor remarked during his briefing on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
Mayor Bill de Blasio rejoiced Tuesday over what appears to be great strides in creating more affordable housing for the city, as promised by 2026.
Even with the pandemic turbulence, de Blasio said, 2020 nevertheless marked the creation of over 30,000 homes. It’s the second highest one-year total in creation for affordable housing in New York City’s history.
“It’s something amazing and we plan to keep that progress going,” the mayor remarked during his briefing on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
Its too expensive to maintain these pre-war residential buildings. Hopefully enough people move out of them and into newer digs.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio rejoiced Tuesday over what appears to be great strides in creating more affordable housing for the city, as promised by 2026.
Even with the pandemic turbulence, de Blasio said, 2020 nevertheless marked the creation of over 30,000 homes. It’s the second highest one-year total in creation for affordable housing in New York City’s history.
“It’s something amazing and we plan to keep that progress going,” the mayor remarked during his briefing on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
This isn't actually a good thing ? People who live in "affordable" housing contribute to the high COL for all others. Their costs just get shifted to everyone else.
DeBlasio doesn't know or care why affordable housing declined in the past. And how it correlates with the rise of NYC's standing as a destination for well to do folks. The more cheap housing they build, the higher the taxes they need. And there's not enough affluent folks looking to work and move back here to support the tax revenue needed.
Aren't there plenty of affordable housing throughout NYC already?
I mean, every neighborhood or so has its own cluster of NYCHA buildings. UWS has the Amsterdam houses in the South and Frederick Douglass houses in the North.
UES has the Holmes towers, up in the lower 90s, close to the private schools.
Over in Queens, LIC has Queensbridge houses, Astoria has Astoria houses and Ravenswood houses. And so on and so forth.
Add to that the rent-controlled and rent-stabilized units.
Aren't there plenty of affordable housing throughout NYC already?
I mean, every neighborhood or so has its own cluster of NYCHA buildings. UWS has the Amsterdam houses in the South and Frederick Douglass houses in the North.
UES has the Holmes towers, up in the lower 90s, close to the private schools.
Over in Queens, LIC has Queensbridge houses, Astoria has Astoria houses and Ravenswood houses. And so on and so forth.
Add to that the rent-controlled and rent-stabilized units.
If many residents are generational then you always need more affordable housing. NYCHA has basically become private property for residents that wish to stay generation after generation.
If many residents are generational then you always need more affordable housing. NYCHA has basically become private property for residents that wish to stay generation after generation.
It doesn't have to be this way, though. Public housing could be a stepping stone only, with a time limit of 5 years (let's say) for each household residing in it.
Instead, what you have is many generational residents, like you said. And these residents, instead of being happy and grateful, develop feelings of entitlement.
Some of the NYCHA properties could be paradise. I'm not joking. On Google map, with the satellite view, you can check out Queensbridge from above, for example. It stands out as being a green island in the middle of dense and grey Western Queens. On top of that, they have a subway stop on one end of the project, and a big park on the other side, right on the East River.
But yet the residents complain. Moan. Life is hard. It's unfair. "There ain't no jobs, there ain't nuffin to do"... while living literally 2/3 quick subway stops away from one of the very best and dynamic areas of Manhattan.
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