Posted on 01/22/2025 10:26:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Crime, the high cost of living, depopulation, and endless waves of illegal aliens are the widely acknowledged reasons for declining fortunes of the New York City. Instead of addressing these obvious problems, New York City’s politicians are celebrating the passage of the “City of Yes,” a massive rezoning plan that claims to create 80,000 new upscale rental units over 15 years, but actually benefits developers to the detriment of owner-occupied single- and two-family housing.
The City of Yes is the culmination of progressive politicians’ long-term strategy to replace stable, low-density owner-occupied neighborhoods with high-density rentals. The City of Yes allows the progressives to achieve two goals: act on their ideological animosity for home ownership and repopulate the city to regain congressional seats.
The City of Yes explicitly targeted low-density areas of the outer boroughs to allow Transit Oriented Developments (TOD), end-of-block high-rises, and Accessory Development Units (ADUs) on single-property zones as new legal rights for developers. Eliminated are established standards for lot sizes, building heights, set-backs, and off-street parking requirements.
In 1916, New York City was the nation’s leader in instituting the first zoning code to remove industrial and tenements from prosperous residential areas, while allowing development of upscale residential and commercial structures along Fifth Avenue. Now the city is using the police power inherent in zoning as a weapon to destroy residential areas outside of Manhattan.
The political deceit is that the housing supply is grossly inadequate. In fact, New York is losing residents. New York City’s population dropped 6% from 2020 to 2023. The city’s population has been stagnant since 1960, when it was 7.9 million. Today it is 8.26 million, down 1% from 2023, according to the latest Census report: the Bronx lost nearly 2% of its population, and Queens and Brooklyn each lost around 27,000 residents.
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Interestingly, Manhattan gained a pathetic 3,000 residents in the past 4 years.
The most significant source of increased population has been illegal aliens: over 220,000 have arrived in the city since 2022, according to ICE.
The Left and its buddy the spirit of antichrist never sleeps.
Drug gangs much prefer high-density housing, one highly suspects.
Good luck getting an accurate count of Manhattan residents.
Decades of rent control guaranteed there are a lot of dead people (with no death certificates) “living” in rent control apartments.
Then there are the illegals and the homeless that are impossible to count accurately.
Also, you will no longer recognize your country, and keep your pie hole shut about it.
It’s a city. Oh you want single family housing, there are plenty of suburbs.
Watch what LA does with property devastated by the fires.
Sorry but allowing landowners to build what they want is called private property. This article is defending muscular government power to tell you what you can and can’t build on your own land.
Cambridge MA is trying to do the same thing, according to the Harvard Crimson.
I remember all those lovely neighborhoods I used to run in, including Governor Weld’s home! Lord have mercy!
And say regular folks like you and I with our families have to elbow past these people doing things like say chilling/loitering on the stairways as we walk from our cars to our front doors , groceries in hand, with our kids? That kind of thing?
They've been doing this to California. Leftist state legislators (Weiner, etc) rewrote residential building rules to force towns and cities to build multi-story multi-occupancy buildings in place of single-family single-story homes. Local county planners can't fight the state and are forced to comply.
Even in the suburbs. Happened to my town in a suburb south of SF. Neighborhoods of single or dual story single-family homes were rezoned, and tall towers are being built along commercial corridors alongside single-family homes. These are 8 to 10 stories with others planned up to 30 stories tall.
One is being planned in SF near the beach, 50 stories tall alongside 2-story residential homes. California, New York, now and the insanity is spreading. Liberals want to pack people like sardines in tin cans.
Prayer changes things.
All very interesting but New York City is ... a city. It’s not trying to be a suburb. Making it a criminal act to build multi family housing in a city is not called freedom. It’s called government coercion.
Prayer changes things.
Lord, we pray that you will let the truth of what it would be like to live in sardine like conditions be known and may the sheeple awake!
Kind of like how Obama’s “cash for clunkers” bankrupted an entire autopark section of Scottsdale—to be razed and replaced with “luxury” apartments. If you consider “luxury” to be cheap laminate flooring, IKEA cabinets, no closets, and 800 square feet of living space.
Increased population has been illegal aliens: over 220,000 have arrived in the city since 2022.
How to murder a city the left takes a bow again.
This is happening where you are, and all over California. Apparently, there’s some kind of housing ‘crisis’. To forever resolve that crisis (and save the planet while we’re at it) we must destroy our beautiful —even charming in some cases— neighborhoods with massive, dull, architecturally brutal structures. What? You’re AGAINST “affordable” housing??? You must be an entitled, racist colonialist. (Or so I am told...). People are becoming multimillionaires, getting a slice of profit from every such unit constructed using other people’s money (our tax dollars) to finance these projects. It’s a scam. I’m expecting that my homeowners insurance will again more than double as a result of the LA situation. It will likely, finally, push me out of the state, after five generations of solid, productive family calling it home.
Yes, it is. When they build these monstrosities, the developer has to set aside a certain percentage of units as "affordable" or "low-income" housing. So when they are built, most are sold for $1.5M to $2M, while the "affordable" units go for $1M. Poor people are not moving in, even then the ones that buy the $1M are hard pressed to afford the annual HOA fees and property taxes. This makes the developers richer.
One more thing - only 1/4 to 1/3 of the residents get parking on site, because residents "are expected" to take public transportation. This impacts nearby residents as extra vehicles hog up residential parking spaces.
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