NO education for you!
Posted on 05/22/2014 11:03:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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. …
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Yeah, that should fix it.
They will all put down their guns and drugs and stop stealing and killing. They should immediately turn into upstanding, hardworking citizens that wear their pants up on their waist like they are supposed to.
And the privileged white people that have worked hard to live in a nice neighborhood will accept them with open arms. (lest they be racists)
Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?
I was taught my whole life and learned through personal experience that diversity is the foundation of all that is evil and the reason why good people walk in fear. But since this race hustler says that diversity will cure the worlds problems, I am finally seeing the light.
Yes! Give the lazy, uncivilized social parasites everything that the hardworking, law abiding people have earned.
I guess I am just not ‘enlightened’ enough to see how this will work.
Won’t begin well either.
This is how you do it. Any rent controlled apartment occupied by someone earning more than $100,000 a year needs to be vacated. Now fill those apartments with people able to pay the $350 per month.
Now, if those wealthy people leave the state, they have to pay to the city the equivalent of what the apartment would be worth if it was sold on the free market.
Quick way to bag a few billion while losing your tax base.
All they will succeed in is turning middle class neighborhoods into low class neighborhoods with all the crime problems that will follow.
Too late, the housing markets for the targeted areas have already tanked.
We're talking people from homeless shelters who pay $200/month living right next to professionals who pay $3000/month. Then we get calls about domestic violence and hallways reeking of pot smoke.
Sorry folks, nothing we can really do. They're here legally. The wife doesn't want to press charges, we didn't catch anyone smoking weed. Have a nice day, and keep voting democrat.
And that's not including the recipients of the free housing.
It's the pols, "social" "workers", builders, union tradesmen, etc.
Segregation creates civilization. Segregation creates language and culture. Segregation creates real diversity. Segregation creates life. Segregation is natural.
Attacks on segregation is an attack on civilization, an attack on nature, an attack on Humanity and life itself.
The Upper West Side is a very mixed neighborhood. Many of the poor were Hispanics, most of whom actually worked but just didn’t make much money, lived in the tenements, and weren’t a real crime problem unless you were involved in the drug trade (there were some gang-connected people in the area, but even that has declined). There are several housing projects there, however, where the majority of the population was black...and you didn’t even dare to walk by those.
Many years ago, NYC tried to alleviate the problem by setting aside much of this housing for the elderly. Of course, they also put all the social programs - such as the methadone clinics, the “homeless” facilities, etc. around them, so that didn’t help a whole lot. The UWS was famous for its roving violent mentally ill.
Things are changing as the Hispanic population moves out to the burbs, like any successful immigrant group, and those apartments are then remodeled and rented or sold to prosperous young people (of any color).
I guess De Blasio wants to stop all these success stories by moving in another crop of welfare tenants and homeless mentally ill drug users to add to those already there.
Maybe you can help me out because I always get confused when people say Lower or Upper when speaking about Manhattan.
Does 'Upper' mean further north (like toward the Harlem River) or does it mean something more akin to 'downtown'...which places you near Wall Street etc.?
The Democrats need to mandate that housing prices must stay up in those neighborhoods. Of course, they also need to mandate that no one is allowed to sell.
$ 3k a month doesn’t go far at all in nyc. Maybe a sokid one bedroom.
Yet the teachers and their union get wealthier and wealthier, while De Blasio takes the money that could have been used for poor New Yorkers and gives it t the fat cats.
Oh - that and preventing the poor, particularly the black poor, from getting out and becoming successful by his attempted destruction of the charter school system, a system which actually gave a mainly minority school in Harlem one of the highest scores in the state in both math and reading.
Yeah, right. Get back to me when they move them to the Upper East Side or wherever it is all of the rich live in Manhattan.
The Middle Class that can are just gonna move.
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So maybe this is a version of what they called “block busting” several decades ago. Perhaps someone well connected to the mayor’s administration is looking to get some middle class property at bargain prices when the panic sets in. As they say, follow the money.
The compulsive Leftist simply cannot accept the fundamental, actual diversity, of mankind--the reality that all of us are different, with different aptitudes & different personality traits. They seek instead the pretense that those who fail do so because of the "prejudices" and "exploitation" of those who succeed.
See The Greatest Mischief Ever Wrought", for a discussion of where collectivist/egalitarianism inevitably leads.
The Left in America is in an end game pursuit to complete the destruction on which they have been engaged for over a century. How we respond will determine the future.
William Flax
Social homogenization
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Yeah, except they won’t be homogenizing using the elites. You can bet on that.
It means further north, but it’s actually sort on in the center, with Central Park on one side and the Hudson River on the other. Harlem is north of the Upper West Side.
Way uptown is known as Upper Manhattan and includes Washington Heights and Inwood.
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