They appear to be getting money from some HUD program for putting welfare “families” into luxury buildings. The developers are being forced to do this in some places, such as NYC and Chicago.
The whole intent is to destroy these buildings and their developers. Imagine if you’d paid a million or so for your apartment, and then the boyz from the hood are partying and shooting each other next door. And you could be black and pay that million or so for your apartment, and I doubt that you’d like it any better, even if they did have the same skin color.
De Blasio was quite well off from politics before he became mayor, and now that he’s into the extortion racket, he’s doing even better and will soon be a multi, multi millionaire who will buy himself a place far from the “poor” or at least a townhouse or a place in an older building that doesn’t have to abide by these rules.
No one, but no one, in a luxury building is going to put up with inner city people moving into their buildings. In NYC, “poor” is a pretty moveable feast.
The idiot DeBlasio (Warren Wilhelm) voted for this thing without reading the zoning provisions. Typical! Now he’s trying to blame the other idiot, Bloomberg.
It reminds me of the 6th Avenue developers who agreed to put in little garden spaces and walkways and instead created huge wind tunnels blowing down the avenue. The idiots in government at that time didn’t bother with the little details either.
These tenants are not really ‘poor’ except in the New York City sense of being unable to come up with $10 million cash to buy their apartment. They are required to have jobs and earn $35-60K a year, to qualify for the $1000 a month two-bedroom that would go for $8000 a month on the free market. They are likely to be a very mixed lot, but they definitely have won the lottery.