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We don't need SFHs next to subway stations. If you want to live in a SFH, move to 99.99% of the rest of the country. I hear Toledo is good this time of year.
And what SFHs are near subway stations? None that I can think of.
And what SFHs are near subway stations? None that I can think of.
To be fair, you are the one that brought up SFH and he was just responding back in kind. Gantz is very knowledgeable about NYC zoning and its problems.
Building dense around mass transportation is very smart growth. If there is a single place in this country that should have mini-Manhattans all over, NYC should be the one as it has the largest subway system in the country.
And what SFHs are near subway stations? None that I can think of.
1. There are areas in south Brooklyn that I know for a fact. A lot. You can look at the map yourself. F, Q/B, N, D lines at the very least. There are plenty more.
2. It is not just SFHs, as previously mentioned. Upzoning to unlimited FAR would unlock tremendous amount of space and capability for developers. There are a lot of underutilized/underdeveloped lots with stellar transportation options that would all of a sudden become economically viable to redevelop if they had bigger development envelopes. There are very few areas, even within Manhattan, that are actually being fully utilized. Midtown East rezoning is a case in point.
Loosen zoning to unlimited FAR around all subway stations for starters with the portion of the unlocked increased property tax revenue going to MTA.
This. Enough already with the carveouts, loopholes, incentives, etc and just let the developers build. Covid showed supply and demand is real despite what the DSA set have to say. When people were leaving the city like no tomorrow during summer 2020 you had studios in the Village dipping almost to 1500/mo which was unheard of. Now everyone's back and so are the prices.
As far as homelessness is concerned, no level of "affordibility" is going to really solve this issue. When you're dealing with folks who can't (or won't) take care of themselves that's a whole different animal. What we need for such folks is supportive housing/hotel-like SROs so they're not on the street. Just giving anyone and everyone a rental voucher is prone to abuse and welfare migration.
Two new residential towers would provide geothermal heating and cooling to buildings nearby in Harlem. The first of it's kind in NYC! The project needs City Council approval, and includes more than 600 market-rate apartments and about 250 affordable units but local leaders fear the large influx of newcomers would dilute the Black vote. Okay...
Two new residential towers would provide geothermal heating and cooling to buildings nearby in Harlem. The first of it's kind in NYC! The project needs City Council approval, and includes more than 600 market-rate apartments and about 250 affordable units but local leaders fear the large influx of newcomers would dilute the Black vote. Okay...
And herein lies the problem. For a lot of housing "advocates" the issue is more a deeply ingranied antipathy towards developers, profit, capitalism and upper middle class folks than housing affordibility. NYC cannot build legions of homes for just the poorest and expect to run/maintain them to any kind of standard. NYC cannot be a city only for the poor anymore than one only for the rich.
NYC needs to do a Houston and get rid of zoning (Except where it concerns industrial activites). Set citywide standards regarding making developers pay into infrastructure, transit, school, emergency service upgrades but otherwise get out of the way.
Hundreds of 911 calls, dozens of arrests and no end in sight to crime spike near Glendale’s Cooper Avenue shelter
The homeless have to live somewhere but you just don't want it to be anywhere near you. And that is a fact.
Buy land in Iowa, move the bums out there. Would be cheaper too.
Why do that to the sensible people of Iowa though? They're not bleeding heart NYC leftists who claim they support coddling the homeless and drug addicts. NYC voters wanted these policies, so let them keep it and live with the consequences
If anything, ship them upstate. I propose next to the governor's mansion in Albany.
and this is why all our areas here in Brooklyn are fighting having these GD homeless shelters built in our middle class neighborhoods.
what planet did Deblasio come from?, to distribute them thru out the boroughs, was his vision.
I live where I live because I don't wanna live in a bad unsafe poor ghetto neighborhood,
and it isn't fair to make mine go sour because some idiot wants to shove a homeless shelter down our throats.
Nothing good comes from these homeless shelters that house mentally ill people.
They had the right idea back in the day to take the mentally ill dangerous people and put them on an island amongst themselves and not be amougst the public.
There should be two options for the homeless. Psych facilities or Shelter with a minimum 20 hrs a week work requirement and payment towards their boarding (EVERYONE needs to have skin in the game!).
If none of these two fit into a homeless person's required life preferences, they can go and live with their family members. Also no more than 2 times (with a maximum of 6 months each stint in a shelter). People need an incentive to have the drive and ambition to want to take care of their own needs. We are creating a city of dependent able bodied individuals.
The devil also find work for idle hands
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