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The idea that a city of nearly 9,000,000 is in desperate need of federal help to accommodate 30,000 new people is beyond asinine.
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Many times - I live in Queens. The only way my kids will be able to afford to stay in this city one day is if we build a lot more housing though, so I’m afraid your aesthetic preferences (and home value, if you own) will have to take a backseat for the next few decades.
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What do you think spending many thousands of dollars a month on rent does to one’s quality of life?
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This train line is literally 150 years old, the neighborhood grew up around the rail line rather than the train being rammed through. Dumb comparison.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Ch…
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You implied this rail line divided a pre-existing neighborhood - I'm simply pointing out that that's false.
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A complete ban on trade with Iran and any nation that continues to trade with him. The immediate arrest of every Iranian government official we can get our hands on. The list goes on.
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The University of Pennsylvania has been in Philadelphia for almost 300 years, for fuck’s sake.
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Friendly reminder: this person was radicalized by her parents having to pay property taxes…in California.
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Relative to what came before it, sure. People came to America to escape monarchs, empires, thousands of years of religious strife, etc. and in many cases built new, better lives for themselves.
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The vast majority of Americans even during that time never committed an act of genocide against native Americans
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Hard to believe “the doctor glut” was actually taken seriously in the 80s and 90s…
google.com/amp/s/www.baltimo…
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Sorry it took me three whole tweets to realize you’re an idiot, I’ll be better in the future.
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“Stalin apparently thought that his underlings were there to arrest him”
Talk about a missed opportunity…
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Elysium is full! Developers are only looking to make a profit by gentrifying the space station! Building new homes will displace rich Elysians in favor of the super-rich! Etc.
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That’s the point - you don’t trade anybody. You forbid Americans from traveling there and leave it at that. If the Russians push it any further, members of their military and intelligence apparatus in the US start dying in “gun battles” with the authorities.
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The largest parking lot on Earth, when it was originally built! Riis Park itself is having a tough time, though.
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You constantly post about low-income tenants, but you’re a longtime homeowner, whose house has presumably nearly tripled in value over the last 20+ years. Sounds like you already got your pile of money, and unlike a developer, didn’t have to build any housing to get it. Curious.
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10% is a mid-2020 #. As of 2017, 245,000 units were off the market in a city of 8 million people where 13% of rentals are overcrowded. Of those vacancies, ~1/3 are under renovation and another 1/3 are seasonal homes. There’s no way around the need to build a lot more housing.
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Their plan is to increase their property values and keep people out of “their” neighborhoods - that’s it - that’s their whole plan.
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Wait till you find out who’s inconvenienced when someone blocks a New York City bus stop with their car…
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We need to build higher and more densely in the huge swaths of this city that are low-rise. What are you afraid of, Michael?
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If the city gave each migrant $5,000 to jumpstart their life here, that would still only be like 1.5% of the NYPD’s annual budget.
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Making fun of people for being concerned about this (or at least unsure) is weird. People get assaulted every day in this city and I can’t blame anyone for being wary.
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Wrong - unimproved land values in particular accrue thanks to the work and investment of everyone but the landowner. You, quite literally, didn’t build that.
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In Karla’s defense, she opposes zoning for more homes in general, so what’s happening now is her preferred outcome.
mobile.twitter.com/KarlaFisk…
Upzoning is a tool created for the profit of developers with the beard of MIH fake “affordable” housing. Middle class people in upzoned neigborhoods continue to be forced out of their homes because upzoning raises market rents.
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Because 360+ New Yorkers getting killed last year is absolutely horrific and you’re a psycho if you think it’s no big deal.
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Not sure, but if you tried to build a new apartment building across the street from it, the tenant would definitely show up at the community meeting to complain about gentrification.
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Thank you to @CarlHeastie , @AndreaSCousins , @LizKrueger and @DeborahJGlick for perpetuating the city and state’s housing crisis! We can look forward to spiraling prices, accelerating displacement and continued hemorrhaging of our federal electoral votes for many years to come.
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65% of Americans own their home - the market is dominated by owner-occupiers who do everything they can to make their homes more expensive. This is grade school stuff, man.
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Very funny that the list of people trying to dunk on this video runs the gamut from "leftists" who hate housing to crypto-racists obsessed with posting pictures of homeless people and abandoned Citibikes.
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And the funny thing is, even in Manhattan there’s plenty of room for improvement! Many older buildings burn oil or gas for heat, most vehicles burn fossil fuels, there’s an over abundance of motor vehicles, there is still sewage spillover during storms, etc.
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They’re higher than they were six years ago, lol. “Lowest ever!” I hope your parents are embarrassed of you.
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“People want their houses to get more valuable and will act accordingly” is an uncontroversial observation for anyone with two working eyes. Are you pretending homeowners don’t have class interests?
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So in other words you read the article, then applied your priors and dismissed it out of hand with nary a critical thought. Outstanding.
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Yes - but I’ll benefit in other ways, like being able to find a home that can comfortably hold a larger family, and my kids won’t eventually have to move away to find a decent home they can afford.
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Drivers should stop crushing children to death. Fucking grotesque, tbh
nbcnewyork.com/news/local/3-…
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If you had an extra $5 billion a year in your pocket, would you spend it to make already cheap fares free, or improve service?
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A federal, state and local regulatory apparatus that makes it absurdly expensive and time consuming to build everything from a duplex to an oil refinery, leaving people with a ton of money but very few ways to productively invest it?
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This exposé from a few years ago is much worse.
nymag.com/intelligencer/2020…
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Any substantive critique of the actual proposals or are we just arguing about process because we have nothing else to say?
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Probably because the people who build them (with generous federal/state subsidies) think only in terms of cars and school buses - nothing else.
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Yes - she wants renters and new residents to subsidize housing instead of her parents paying property taxes, lol.
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I would design urban roads to prevent people from driving recklessly, implement automated enforcement at each intersection and install lots of speed cameras. I would also revoke licenses for life if someone negligently causes an accident, and life sentences if someone is killed.
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“ Valerie Ross is a 21-year West Philadelphia homeowner and vice president of West Philadelphians for Progressive Planning and Preservation.”
inquirer.com/opinion/comment…
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Also, in big cities like New York, NIMBYs and strict land use controls predate the collection of robust economic data. You won’t see a FRED graph that shows the immediate effects of the 1916 and 1961 downzonings in NYC, for example.
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“Why did my kids have to move so far away to afford a home?”
“Why can’t I afford to downsize now that I’m older?”
You can’t even recognize your own self-interest, nevermind that of others.
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Tbf the 55,000,000 was grossly inflated - it assumed that basically every lot would be built out to maximum density, which obviously isn’t realistic.
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I guess cars aren’t so easy to avoid after all, and we need to start making an example out of shitty drivers.
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Keeping people in the red/orange areas, where their lifestyles will cause much higher lifetime greenhouse gas emissions, is good because letting them live in the cities (with much lower emissions) would require building new stuff. You are clearly very concerned with the climate.
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Why do leftists obsess over equitably distributing a paltry amount of new housing instead of housing everyone in the best way possible?
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So you agree with the main thrust of YIMBYs that zoning laws reduce the supply of housing and raise prices, but you spend your time arguing with them nonetheless. Very weird hobby!
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Parking minimums of any kind on the island of Manhattan are insane, and only slightly less so for huge swaths of the outer boroughs.
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Anyone who owns an SFH in a city like New York for a few years is sitting on six figures of equity. The solution is to build more, not less, so that people can stay within their neighborhood or the broader city, and densifying less dense areas is a decent way to do that.
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Yeah we’re doing great - if you don’t drive why are you still filling that diaper of yours?
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If holding units off the market raises rents why do you think zoning laws that keep people from building additional homes is bad?
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