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Posted on 11/02/2025 3:34:12 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
With a 1.4% vacancy rate, the city is in desperate need of housing, and fast.
A special panel known as the Charter Revision Commission, established by Mayor Eric Adams, believes they have some solutions to the problem.
What You Need To Know Housing-related proposals will appear as questions two through five on the November ballot. Voters will see them when they flip over their ballots
Question two would create two new shortened processes for affordable housing: one for publicly financed projects and another for a newly created list of the 12 community districts with the least development
Question three would create a new kind of land use process known as “ELURP,” or the “expedited land use review process,” for smaller housing projects, with final approval from the City Planning Commission
Question four is arguably the most controversial. The proposal looks to create an “Affordable Housing Appeals Board” made up of the mayor, relevant borough president and council speaker to make the final decision on new development
Question five would digitize and consolidate the city’s maps that are currently spread across all five boroughs
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I thought hundreds of people were moving out of NYC when Mamdummy became mayor? There shouldn’t be any problem with housing!
The federal government owns the navigable airspace. What I suggest is closing that airspace to airports within 50 miles of any unaffordable area to soften the rents in those areas.
I also suggest building new state capital cities about once a decade to provide abundant affordable housing with amenities.
Stating the obvious for the record, I would argue that NYC needs productive residents.
The housing issue would then resolve itself naturally.
There is no ‘right’ to privacy nor housing enshrined within the U.S. Constitution.
The perversion that progressives have unleashed by setting the standards of housing so high and personal responsibility so low is directly reflected with this snowballing ‘crisis’ with housing.
Only the productive tax payer class is moving from NY.
Exactly. I maintain that there is no “affordable housing crisis” ™
There IS a lack of personal responsibility crisis which BLUE government continues to enable for their voter base.
Ever since C19 when most of the renter population lost their minds and let their financial selves go thinking the government would provide for them in perpetuity.
90% of applicants to my “blue collar” community have credit scores BELOW 600. And today is it MUCH easier to attain a higher credit rating.
The exodus of taxpayers from progressive-socialist / criminal friendly / illegal aliens friendly Illinois is massive.
The state just robbed the road fund from downstate IL to give to Chicago for "mass transit" that runs at less than 33% full. The fools in the State Legislature think somehow "more funding" (more grifting for the connected politicians) is the answer to everything that's WRONG about Chicago.
Chicago and its voters are literally KILLING the state.
I'm out as of Thursday this coming week. New home in Southeast Tennessee already purchased, sold my home in IL yesterday for full listing price & cash deal.
The people in Chicago that can escape it are fleeing to the southwest suburbs in droves. They're going to find out shortly that they overpaid, and they're STILL not escaping the insanity that Chicago creates. Pity them.
Agreed—once the crime rate skyrockets even the dumbest law abiding city resident will start running for the hills.
I like that sort of thinking.
I’m in MA, and while the state has a fair number of airports, the only one that really counts is Logan, right in Boston. Like other states (Illinois comes to mind), MA is one really big city and a lot of land that is utilized to various extents. I would say that the western 3/4 of MA is relatively empty. I live in that area and, yeah, I like it empty. But if they passed a zoning law that closed Logan and forced a new International airport to be built just west of the middle of the state, it would probably spark a tremendous building boom. Take pressure off Boston, raise property values in the rest of the state, and create huge opportunities for affordable housing.
And moving capitals would be awesome. Put “Washington, DC” in Kansas. Then move it to Georgia. Then New Mexico. Pour some wealth into various areas, AND make the bureaucrats want to rotate out on a regular basis “I’m not moving again!!”
I’d like to see that at both the State and the Federal level. It would be “inefficient” and expensive but I think a big problem in our society is our desperate, relentless quest to always maximize all the money for the top 10%. I say we start to absorb some extra cost and find ways to spread money around WITHOUT any communist redistribution of wealth. Workers don’t need to own the means of production — but maybe the government could move to where the people can afford to live. I don’t think it’s asking too much.
I don't know for sure but let me guess, the city makes it so hard to build new housing and hard to charge a rent that would make it worthwhile, that there is little to no housing available.
They need free housing for all the “migrants” that Eric Adams put up at 4 and 5 star hotels.
Used tents from Gaza
KELO-—ON STEROIDS—_REVISITED !!!
ANYONE READY FOR A CHANGE TO RURAL, QUIET LIVING-—CONTACT ME
ONE HOTEL WAS ROOM & 3 MEALS A DAY===$56 MILLION A MONTH FOR FULL OCCUPANCY BY ILLEGALS.
THE 3 MEALS A DAY AVERAGED BILLED AT $42 EACH.
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