Consider the calculations behind the June 12, 2017 official opening for the 535 Carlton tower in Prospect Heights, the first “100 percent affordable” building in the Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project.
The emails show developer Greenland Forest City Partners scripting quotes from a grateful new 535 Carlton resident; a mayoral aide transforming a corporate press release into a governmental statement; and seeming distance from affordable housing advocates who once strongly backed Atlantic Yards, slated to include 2,250 below-market apartments.
Unmentioned: the grateful tenant was hardly representative of a building with 148 of 297 units aimed at middle-income households paying, for example, $2,680 for a one-bedroom apartment or $3,223 for a two-bedroom unit.
As this reporter wrote for City Limits in April 2017, the “real math” behind that building’s housing lottery showed some 67,000 households aiming for the 90 low-income apartments, while only 2,203 made the first cut for the 148 middle-income units. Ismene Speliotis, former ACORN housing head and now Executive Director of MHANY Management, which manages the housing lottery and tenant intake for the project expressed concern, telling City Limits that the limited response for the middle-income units indicated “a disconnect between the population’s need and the apartment distribution.”
2 comments:
I ALWAYS SAY "KARMA IS A BITCH'. HE WILL GET HIS DAY WHEN ALL WILL COME CRUMBLING DOWN AND THE ONLY PERSON HE CAN BLAME IS HIMSELF.
His whole time in office has been a meticulous public relations campaign. This is what happens when people don't vote and the news media continues to cover bullshit instead of civic happenings. For example that 30 year old pile of crap getting kicked out of his parents house, there is more time and ink spent on this than any reports on the agents of the city email dump.
To my 6 viewers, stay tuned for my take on those wormtongue bullshit artists at Berlin/rosen
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