Posted on 05/22/2014 7:04:13 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
The City plans to attack economic segregation in its affordable housing plan — placing the poor in middle-class neighborhoods and the more affluent in high-poverty spots.
Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been said the plan to build 80,000 new affordable apartments and preserve 120,000 units would create a more diverse city.
“We really have to make economic diversity a cornerstone of that plan,” she said at a City Council budget hearing Wednesday.
“That means that in some neighborhoods that have mostly middle or upper-income housing, that we would need to put affordable housing at the very lowest income,” she said.
“But in some communities where we have a great deal of poverty . . . we would try to bring more moderate (-income housing) into those neighborhoods, to try to achieve the kind of diversity that we want,” Been said.
De Blasio’s executive budget boosted the housing department’s capital cash to $3.1 billion, up from $1.9 billion in his January preliminary budget, to help pay for the ambitious proposal.
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Yes she was.
No one nails the totalitarian collectivists better than Rand.
Never apologize for being spot-on correct!
They want to be like Detroit
At least Detroit will get a chance to build back up from scratch....Who knows, maybe in 20 years, it will be an ideal city, IF they can learn from previous mistakes.
Why not move them to the upper East side so that the good liberals can REALLY get to know them...
They will move these people into the politically “right” neighborhoods to “fix” the voting inequalities.
There isn’t anything that can be done to NYC denizens that could be considered too much. Those smug self absorbed self satisfied nitwits have been exporting tyranny (gun control, wealth transfer, etc.) to the rest of use for years via their elected representatives. Let them see what tyranny feels like. I’d like to see every liberal family forced to house a couple of hoodrats in their home.
One of the defining characteristics of liberals is that they NEVER learn from their mistakes. When a policy fails (or more frequently has exactly the opposite effect of its STATED intent) they always say "We just didn't go far enough." As if when doing x amount of something makes things worse, doing ten times x of it will somehow reverse the effect.
Liberals cannot learn. If they could they wouldn't be liberals.
The UES is probably the most "conservative" part of Manhattan. Not that that's saying that much. I'm more in favor of putting it in the liberal Upper West Side and right next to Mayor Wilhem's house in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
I introduced my wife to ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and she enjoyed it so much, she lugged the book, all 800 pages of it, to Paris with us. Wound up getting her a Kindle so she could finish the book in relative comfort. I re-read it myself (forty years after the first time) and was absolutely astounded at how relevant it is today.
Two words from a former St. Louisian; ”Pruitt Igoe”......talk about a master of disaster.....
Police have zones they cover - and the majority of police money, time, and effort is in the black community. They go where the crime is... so I’m going to assume that’s what you meant...
Move Section 8 people into UPPER CLASS neighborhoods. AND into the cool exclusive buildings New York Times editors live in... And yeah, even trendy established bi-racial neighborhoods could use Section 8 housing.
If values 'RUB OFF' why not give the poor and homeless the best?
Whole 'projects' could be placed where college professors live. And in upper class liberal elite neighborhoods. Does Bloomberg have the opportunity to 'role model' for the less fortunate? We can help him have that chance...
Yes, we'll have to pay more to put people in million dollar homes - but the poor will be happy. Million dollar homes can be broken up into apartments for the poor... and homeless.
In a few years when 'upper class' has rubbed off - the poor and homeless will be liberal elites with great jobs.
I'm sure it'll work...
Like a liberal, I CARE. I HAVE GREATER COMPASSION. I WANT the homeless to do better. Michael Moore could use some new neighbors next to his mansion on the river... same with Al Gore. Bill Clinton's neighborhood could use a little diversity... Let's give the poor a real chance... let them live with - and become - liberal elites.
The problem is the incentives to assimilate people are all wrong when it’s forced... we can do better.
In MA a few decades ago, there was some law that every new development had to have a certain percentage of low income homes. Not a problem.....they were clustered together on the least desirable land, away from the rest of the development. I'm assuming the law was forgotten after awhile.
What they're doing in NYC is just plain dumb. The only cities that survive are those that have sections that are comprised of exclusively middle class or upper-tier neighborhoods. When those areas cease to exist, the residential taxpayer base disappears, and the jobs follow the residents out of the city.
Leaving people alone is the best solution Liberalism, which is in control of American life, suffers from “Busybodydom!”
I support your proposals.
Section 8 for Chappaqua!
In due time, the dirty kid's dirt makes the clean kid dirty
It never, never, never EVER works the other way around
The dirty kids has to WANT to be clean ... GET that way and STAY that way.
Yep...
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