Coming soon to an Obamanation near you.
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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Free cardboard box condo’s for the homeless. :-)
https://blokink.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/kowloon-walled-city-words-with-stu-easton/
At first look I thought that was a fake photo.
Just move a homeless family into each luxury high rise unit. That would double the density. And that will cut average housing costs, as well.
” I can’t imagine having to live in a 1000 square foot home——”
I didn’t see anything in the article about 1000 square foot residences——I may have missed it.
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No doubt the New York Leftists are swooning in anticipation as we speak - as long as it is not they who have to live in these apartment blocks like the Lumpen Proletariat. They'll no doubt have their own private apartments on the upper West side, chauffeurs and limos (no "public" transport for them!) and their lakeside dachas in the Catskills.
Why, it will be just like a dream come true!
Coming soon to an Obamanation near you.
Agenda 21?
I used to have a friend in NY who told me about a friend of hers who moved to Florida. After a year she asked her friend if she missed New York. Her friend replied “Not one bit.”
Actually their ideal is for 325 sq ft efficiency apartments with no kitchen (microwave only as you will eat at restaurants most of the time).
About a year ago they had a special on about the ultimate city apartment. They were fishing to change the zoning and health laws to be able to build 725,000 of them in NYC.
Agenda 21 is on the way to a city near you.
I can totally understand that for sure. I could never live in NYC or any city for that matter. I do like visiting cities but only during the day with a plan for ever second.
Stackable CONEX boxes.
Bloomberg was the Zeitgeist's first hint that maybe, just maybe, the City was at least unworthy of anything but benign neglect.
DeBlahblahblah is all-in f it. The right fist raised over a shit garden...
A “dense” Mayor who wants a “dense” city.
I actually like Tiny Houses if you can tow them with your truck and park them a mile from the nearest neighbor.
“Actually their ideal is for 325 sq ft efficiency apartments with no kitchen (microwave only as you will eat at restaurants most of the time).”
Aaaarrggghhh-—I’d shoot myself and I live alone.
I’m an elderly woman and sold the big family home and now live in 2 bed,2 bath all one level condo. 1100 square feet-—and it is perfect.
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Sure Rush could afford the best, even there.
The culture is fine, museums great, cuisine impeccable.
For those with $.
But think about the other 7 million people crammed into that hell-hole.
They aren't going to the opera every other night.
God bless you if you want to live there.
I assume she is dense and affordable?
The “projects” built in Newark, NJ, in the 50’s and 60’s didn’t work out well. They became crime pits, and the denizens pretty much destroyed them. They were eventually torn down.
How will this be different?
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio.
Phil, the dead Groundhog that de Blasio dropped, speaks from beyond the grave......
“Bill de Blasio? I hate that son-of-a-bitch. The big coward got scared and threw me on the concrete. I wish he’d go back to Nicaragua and kill some lizards.”
pretty amazing, yes? from New York to New Kowloon if the RATS have their way
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