There's one big problem with Mayor de Blasio’s affordable housing plan for East New York — it’s not affordable, according to a report by city Controller Scott Stringer.
The report, to be released Thursday, finds that 1,896 of the 3,447 affordable units the plan will create could end up too expensive for people who live in the Brooklyn nabe.
The units will be priced at around $1,200 a month, according to the formula that the city is using to determine affordability, Stringer’s report said.
That formula considers a family of three earning $46,620 a year to be “low-income.”
But the typical family in East New York — the first neighborhood to be rezoned under the mayor’s plan — earns just $32,815.
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They just love to make affordable housing in the good neighborhoods so out of reach to middle income earners and they want to stick middle income earners into the crappiest neighborhoods in nyc. It's just so ridiculous the way this city separates people. They can keep their "affordable housing" crap if you ask me. Plus, they're building all these apartment buildings but there is no room for more people in this city. There's already no parking in the streets, schools are packed to overcapacity, the buses and trains are already overcrowded, the traffic is too much already, the courts aRe backed up for years, the dmv has the longest waits already (I mean really, why should someone have to miss a day of work just to go to the dmv?). When is the government finally going to start realizing that this affordable housing crap is not going to make a difference? Those people who are already living in illegal conversions are just going to move out into one of these "affordable housing" units but the illegal conversion will still be there and sure enough some other person will move into nyc and take the vacant illegal conversion....it's a cycle that will not end until the government tightens the fist on illegal conversions and the forming of "multi family houses".
It is just another way to get rid of the trash.
Once you do that,the neighborhood starts to get revitalized.
It is a vicious cycle...
'Affordable Housing' is a fantasy. It is a shakedown of developers to line the pockets of politicians.
A few token apartments go for below market value, still way above a reasonable rate.
Another scam brought to you by the good people in NYC government!
Affordable for deBlasio voters, only
Anyone catch the response to Stringer's report? Along the lines of "even when these units cost more than 30% of household income they'll still be cheaper than market rate units." Putting the response to the crisis in the hands of private developers is just asking for trouble. Too bad unions aren't able to step up to the plate - the Amalgamated houses illustrate how things could work. Ah well, that was then.
'Too bad unions aren't able to step up to the plate'
Are you kidding? Even DuhBlasio's administration has had to admit that union work rules and wages make building 'affordable housing' impossible.
'Affordable for deBlasio voters, only'
The vast majority of DuhBlasio voters are poor, uneducated, and on the dole. They believe his BS campaign promises and keep voting Democrat to keep their checks coming in.
Here is the problem: if you make the rent even lower and people start to live there you will never be able to raise the rent. Once a number is set there is a battle to even increase along inflation or cost of living percentages.
I remember a number of years ago a woman living in the West Village with a rent controlled apartment was complaining to the landlord. The Post headline was something like: "Apartment for $69 a month and STILL she complained". Once they set a number so low good luck ever getting any significant raise!
Whatever happened to that 'the rent is too damned high!' guy?
WHAT ABOUT JOBS?? AND I DON'T MEAN THE CONSTRUCTION JOBS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO CREATE THESE NEW UNITS. THIS MAYOR AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT GENERATING NEW JOBS. IT'S BAD ENOUGH WE REAL NEW YORKERS HAVE TO COMPETE AGAINST THE WHOLE TRI-STATE AREA BUT FOCUS ON BRINGING IN NEW INDUSTRIES.
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De Blasio thinks that NYers want MORE affordable housing but what we really want is more AFFORDABLE housing. The rent is too damn high.
The yearly incomes on what qualifies for affordable housing are flawed, maybe intentionally to mollify the miserly developers. The 80:20, 75:25, and 70:30 ratios are absurd as the rising inequity and erosion of the middle class have to fight (soon enough) for the meager amount of apartments available. And it's absurd that people or families that can afford market rate apartments or even a house would need to apply for and need help from the city for what is basically luxury public housing.
This is not only a scam but a fucking joke. Even the borough presidents know it as they are starting to feel the anger of the desperate and the stable that feels a palpable threat of displacement and disenfranchisement.
Mayor Big Slow's hurry-up style of implementing proactive programs, this and vision zero, are imploding and spraying shit all over the place. But the guy doesn't give a shit. He has full confidence in his well meaning thoughts and hopes. I wonder if he thinks all these greedhead developers, his mercenary advisers and those REBNY lobbyists care about the people that this venture is suppose to aid. Or will come around after they are done profiting remaking the city and outer boroughs until they are unrecognizable,bland and resemble something like the opening scenes of Blade Runner.
But by then he will certainly be gone and probably starting the DeBlasio Initiative and will attempt to offer his ideas to the rest of the country.
Wait,he already did that this summer
@ Anonymous #1
Couldn't agree more!
Well said.
The city is in the social engineering business, that's why the insanity continues with catchy buzzwords like affordable housing, urban development, etc etc.
Wait until Stringer uncovers the $millions being lost in the Pre-K scam.
As long as illegal immigrants are allowed to come in there will always be more demand for housing making the people here more desperate to chase after a smaller and smaller part of the pie.
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