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De Blasio Announces Affordable Housing Plan [The $41 Billion Program Will Create....]
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Posted on 05/05/2014 8:50:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Steve_Seattle
Friend of mine and his wife live in Manhattan. A 500 square foot apartment with her piano. Try living like that......
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:10:10 AM PDT
by
Sub-Driver
(Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
To: Sub-Driver
Yet another reason that upstate needs to separate itself & leave NYC as their own State ... they can even keep the name.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:11:05 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Affordable, my Aff...)
To: Sub-Driver
MIDDLE CLASS (AND WORKING CLASS) HETEROSEXUAL WHITES NEED NOT APPLY
To: Steve_Seattle
Given the history of these kinds of projects, thats going to be 500 crime-infested pigstys in about 20 years.
I like your optimism! I give them 5.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:12:06 AM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Sub-Driver
What could go wrong?
I guess I should be more optimistic. It might turn out slightly better than Cabrini Green.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:12:39 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Sub-Driver
True, but just the dream that one might view Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinsky live on the street someday is inspiration for some....
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:12:44 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraiaq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:13:38 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
To: Sub-Driver
Just like old Soviet Russia!
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:23:16 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Steve_Seattle
Wonder how Manhattan is going to react to LOVELY GRAFFITTI covered
highrises in THEIR city!!! THESE PEOPLE NEVER LEARN,!!!! What the
hell can they NOT see what happened to the past BEAUTIFUL highrises
put up across the country!!!!
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:30:57 AM PDT
by
Kit cat
(OBummer must go)
To: 1_Rain_Drop
In new york that is especially true. Building these will do nothing to change that trend.
To: Sub-Driver
Friend of mine and his wife live in Manhattan. A 500 square foot apartment with her piano. Try living like that...... I own a building that size, I call it "my shed". I store garden and lawn tools in it.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:39:27 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
To: nascarnation
My intuition tells me a large chunk of the $41 bil isnt gonna be from NYS or NYC, but from Uncle Sam (or Aunt Hillary as it will be known after Jan 2017). Who knows how this *great, Socialist idea* will all play/pay out. This is all I could find, from other articles...
He has vowed to pursue mandatory inclusionary zoning, or requiring developers to include affordable units if they want permission for bigger buildings or other breaks.
De Blasio's administration also wants to legalize some illegal basement apartments, fight Albany for more rent-controlled apartments and direct $1 billion of city pension funds to building lower-rent units, among other ideas.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:57:53 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
To: nascarnation
Yesterday, I met up with an old friend I hadn’t seen in 20 years. She was starry-eyed and gasping because she saw Chelsea Clinton coming out of a car in Chappaqua the other day. Truly, I almost turned my back on her I was so embarrassed for her.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Sub-Driver.
...plan to build 200,000... housing units... in 10 years... a "fundamental plan to reduce income inequality." ...to service more than 500,000... $41 billion program...
That's $82,000 per person served -- affordable? Affordable to whom? This should be bundled with the special, limited term, new tax to pay for it, I suggest calling it "The DeBlasio Redistribution-Reparations Special Housing Tax", which will cost $4917.84 per person over ten years, a mere $40 a month, well, more than that, because obviously the 500,000 to be housed shouldn't have to PAY for their own welfare...
And in ten years, availability of "free" housing will mean that the entire city will be loaded up with two or three million new freeloaders currently living either somewhere else, or having gone from eight years old in 2014 to 18 years old in 2024 and ready to "live on their own"...
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posted on
05/05/2014 10:25:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Sub-Driver
Soviet style microdistricts coming to NYC. The proletariat will pay for this.
CC
To: Steve_Seattle; katnip
Instant hellholes. Crime. Lice. Rats, Roaches. Garbage in the courtyards.
Watch property values plummet for a mile around.
To: Sub-Driver; Steve_Seattle; katnip
I have the perfect name for this project of de Commio’s:
Pruitt-Igoe.
To: Sub-Driver; Steve_Seattle; katnip
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