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In 2nd Year, Mayor de Blasio Will Focus on Making Housing Denser and More Affordable
nytimes. ^ | feb 2, 2015 | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMFEB.

Posted on 02/04/2015 3:31:21 PM PST by dennisw

Alicia Glen, the city’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said in an interview.

“Density doesn’t have to be a bad word,” Ms. Glen added. “We want to explain the benefits of density, and why density is not, per se, a scary thing.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday is set to declare housing as the focal point of his second year in office, unveiling a vision for an even denser yet more affordable New York City that will transform neighborhoods from East Harlem in Manhattan to Staten Island’s North Shore.

The mayor’s mission: to convince New Yorkers that his plan to build more, and build higher, can improve the quality of life for residents across all income levels, even as many have come to associate construction cranes and high-rise buildings with the out-of-reach opulence of the upper class.

In his second State of the City address, Mr. de Blasio plans to invoke the city’s post-World War II building boom, when large housing complexes like Stuyvesant Town offered shelter and security to middle- and working-class New Yorkers.

Officials said the mayor would announce new plans to rezone two more neighborhoods, East Harlem and Stapleton, Staten Island, to allow for taller and larger residential buildings. Mr. de Blasio intends to make affordable apartments a requirement, not an option, in those developments — along with four others across the city — and he will offer new protections for current tenants who fear being forced out by the changes.

The mayor also plans to call for the construction of 160,000 new market-rate apartments over the next decade, hoping that a larger supply of housing will help reduce rents more broadly.

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More and cheaper housing for the Gimmee Class?

Big Bird Blobbio has a (sob) "Heart of Gold."

Heck, must take an enormous amt of digitalis to keep Big Bird Blobbio's heart functioning.

Sometimes I actually worry (snort) about what would happen if Big Pharma runs out of digitalis to keep liberal Hearts of Gold beating.

"Al, I hate your lily-livered black guts. If I was Mayor
of Ferguson, I'd say shoot to kill the little black punks."

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Ut oh--- Sen Schumer runs out of digitalis.

"I dont give a s*** about poor black peoole."

21 posted on 02/04/2015 3:48:23 PM PST by Liz
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To: dennisw
"You are my density..."
22 posted on 02/04/2015 3:52:50 PM PST by EEGator
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To: dennisw

Goes hand in hand with the ‘Tiny Houses’ movement. Trying to make larger homes obsolete. They will make anyone living in comfort in a larger house feel guilty by their excess. Never underestimate the ability of a Democrat to cast simple comfort as a luxury.


23 posted on 02/04/2015 3:53:17 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine w)
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To: dennisw
"The mayor’s mission: to convince New Yorkers that his plan to build more, and build higher, can improve the quality of life for residents across all income levels, even as many have come to associate construction cranes and high-rise buildings with the out-of-reach opulence of the upper class. "

Just as an aside, New York City has a lower median household income than New York State. Boith New Jersey and Connecticut have higher median household incomes than New York State.


24 posted on 02/04/2015 3:55:25 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: dennisw

Fact: Manhattan has 1 million fewer residents than in 1950.


25 posted on 02/04/2015 3:55:28 PM PST by oblomov (White privilege: the contemporary left's way of saying "the Jews".)
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26 posted on 02/04/2015 3:58:59 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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27 posted on 02/04/2015 4:00:15 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dennisw

Part of Agenda 21 and the Safe Streets Act of 2014? It’s always someone’s agenda these days...


28 posted on 02/04/2015 4:00:22 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: silverleaf
His family home in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He also owns rental houses nearby.

He lives in the governor's mansion, Gracie Mansion. He could convert that into at least 37 apartments to house a few hundred tenants.

29 posted on 02/04/2015 4:03:26 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Mr. de Blasio intends to make affordable apartments a requirement, not an option, in those developments

Good luck. Many have tried to regulate the free market; all have failed.

30 posted on 02/04/2015 4:08:08 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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“more affordable “

just like the affordable care act took money from those who earn it to give it to the non-producers.


31 posted on 02/04/2015 4:22:07 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: fella

All each one had to do was take a nice warm shower bath before going to his new residence.


32 posted on 02/04/2015 4:24:41 PM PST by libstripper (")
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To: silverleaf
How many is Wilhelm going to crowd into the basement of his mansion?

Heh. Or in his dacha?

33 posted on 02/04/2015 4:27:03 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: dennisw

Oh great. Another set of “liberal” housing projects, which are known in the real world as warehouses for the poor, drug plantations run by the dealers, and self-imposed jails where the denizens are locked in at night for their own safety.

Comrade DeBlasio - YES I’M GONNA DO THIS and if you don’t like it, you will go to jail.


34 posted on 02/04/2015 4:29:47 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: dennisw

Huh?

We used to just call them the projects.

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35 posted on 02/04/2015 4:31:54 PM PST by Mears (there wasn't much conversation about it.)
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To: dennisw
Welcome, comrade, to new New York apartment! You'll enjoy spacious accommodations!

Meet and get to associate with new friends!

You and your family will enjoy the latest in collectivist ergonomic features!

Why bother having to walk from bedroom to dining room?

Children will love it!


36 posted on 02/04/2015 4:35:56 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: dennisw
New Kowloon?

37 posted on 02/04/2015 4:39:29 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: dennisw
If you immigrated from Calcutta then NYC does not seem densely populated

Ha, reminds me of this Simpsons quote from Apu...

38 posted on 02/04/2015 4:41:18 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: dennisw

What’s he gonna do, put bunk beds in Central Park?


39 posted on 02/04/2015 4:50:35 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: dennisw

more IslamoNazi immigrant/infiltrators from all sorts of Krapistans, crammed into NYC ...
more dense...more crime, more threats, more assaults, more rapes, more burnt churches and synagogues...

sounds like liberal Paradise, no?


40 posted on 02/04/2015 4:57:07 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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