Posted on 07/07/2014 8:15:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One thing we know about Mayor de Blasio is that he’s serious about creating affordable, quality housing for all New Yorkers.
“This is literally the largest and most ambitious affordable-housing program initiated by any city in this country in the history of the United States of America,” de Blasio declared when he announced his “five-borough, 10-year plan” in May. “It is the largest, fastest affordable-housing plan ever attempted at a local level,” he added, vowing to “change the face of this city forever.”
Hear that kids? Your rent worries will soon ease. Great news!
I wonder if the new promise will work out like similar vows from Mayor Bloomberg (“We’ll pursue the most ambitious affordable-housing initiative in New York’s history,” 2006), Mayor Ed Koch (“we won’t rest until the housing we so desperately need is built. The housing shortage is our most severe and intractable problem,” 1986), John Lindsay (who pledged $2 billion to build “160,000 units of low- and middle-income housing,” 1965) and John “Red Mike” Hylan (who said the law of supply and demand should be repealed when it came to housing, citing WWI as the emergency of the day. It was 1920.)
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RE: Is rent control still in effect there?
YES.
See here:
http://nypost.com/2014/06/22/nyc-rent-freeze-decision-may-effect-stabilized-apartments/
I rate them inversely desirable to the number of liberals who live there.
Link to subsidized rates:
And only one Republican mayor during all that time and he didn’t say anything about this. He worked on important stuff like cleaning up the citiy’s trash.
RE: I think the ‘desirability’ of living someplace is better related to by population density.
The more ‘dense’ the population, the more problems.
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To paraphrase the great baseball player and eminently quotable, YOGI BERRA: “Nobody lives there anymore, it’s too dense.”
Boston really is a cool city.
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For me the question is not whether I can afford to live in NYC but how much would someone have to pay me to get me to live there. If they want me to work too the price would be steep indeed. I would much prefer living in a camper trailer on a creek bank in Carolina.
As I see it, there is a “happy place” along the population density spectrum. Too dense, and the Left and their thug base make things undesirable. Too sparse, and a single family becomes possible prey if/when things go down the toilet. Then, you have to begin the research-pray-research-pray...cycle to find a place that will remain safe over time.
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