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- Slán do anois, Shannon Pot!
- How de Blasio marketed affordable housing is a joke
- Water towers are kind of gross
- Toby pushing for kitchens at shelters
- Glass panel falls, kills worker on job site
- "Simple" rezoning sounds a bit strange
- Honoring an outstanding veteran
- Thank you for your service
- Owning a home in Queens is not cheap
- Just going to leave this right here...
- Push to use video as evidence for littering summonses
- Sidewalk repair reprieve
- BDB used Mets games to look like an everyman
- MTA to provide more Queens bus service later this ...
- Homeless not-for-profit's math doesn't add up
- Brooklyn neighborhoods try to hold ECB accountable
- City closing stretch of Rockaway beaches for safet...
- Coming soon to a streetscape near you?
- Sunnyside teardown almost $10M
- Parking meters hiked and BDB is fine with it
- City (still) trying to crack down on parking placa...
- Upstate senators support a denser New York City
- Huge Queens Blvd development is widely criticized
- Non-profit is building up Astoria property
- Locust Manor getting a Caliendo special
- Lots of dough thrown down the homeless hole
- City Council about to lower the boom on AirBnB
- Feds looking at Cuomo donors
- Woodside visa fraudster cuffed
- 129-ft tall hotel proposed for LIC
- Drunk driver crashes into house, reveals illegal c...
- South Ozone Park: all shelters, all the time
- Blissville rallies outside Gracie Mansion
- Stop work order violations will carry heavier pena...
- DOB verifies that Elmhurst death house was illegal...
- Does anyone at DHS have a clue?
- Bill aims to stop car dealership sidewalk parking
- Is the Shel game over?
- Elmhurst fire is an old familiar story
- Municipal vehicles causing havoc
- Bayside pimp pinched
- Who will be appointed to AG role?
- Why it's important to research history
- Building boom brings shoddy construction
- Developers causing low-rise grief
- World's quickest takedown?
- Is the Clear Curbs initiative helping or hurting?
- Your tax dollars at work, DHS edition
- LIC will get more hotels, like it or not
- Sandy's lesson not learned?
- Future of KGH site is up in the air
- Woodside to get 75-unit building
- Development plan for Sunnyside to be crafted this ...
- AirBnB has caused rental prices to skyrocket
- Katz finally working on Jamaica cleanup
- Watch out for cyclists! (They'll run right into you)
- Groups crawl out of the woodwork to support AirBnB
- Brooklyn CB is fighting back against illegal curb ...
- Illegal truck lot was very bad neighbor
- $20B transit signal upgrade is needed
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- Crazy big development coming to Astoria
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8 comments:
There is obviously no doubt that the city gets ripped off by having to pay this. At the very least however the invoice for serves provided should reflect what actual services they did provide, how many individuals and families received and "benefited" form those services and when those services were actually provided.
$400+ million? Who are Acaica? What's going on here? Details??
Yep, someplace in the boiler plate housing court is not to evict single parents with children. If they are currently housed, The landlord must pay for them. No mention about going after all the baby daddys or if a male moves in.
Let Me guess: Next thing coming down the pike is if your a homeowner with small household and spare room/unused basement you MUST take these people and allow the city to convert the house to an additional occupancy for sec 8 homeless with children?
"Let Me guess: Next thing coming down the pike is if your a homeowner with small household and spare room/unused basement you MUST take these people...."
I read this crap every time the subject of homeless or DHS comes up.
This will --never-- happen. Write about what is really going on.
What is happening is the slow removal of single family houses in the areas where housing prices have gotten ahead of the actual desirability of the neighborhood.
I don't live in Queens but have 5 businesses there and am out in various sections every week.
When I see asking prices nearing, or exceeding one million dollars for single family houses in Astoria, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside etc, you have to realize that many of these will be destined for redevelopment --meaning apartments.
You can try to fight this via zoning, but that will put you in conflict with people who have worked 30+ years to pay off a mortgage and now expect a big windfall...and the sharks in the real estate who have been known to brib...I mean favor certain politicians.
This City will need more taxes over the coming years and higher density is is one way to get that.
Rob in Manhattan
Acacia runs cluster homes. Which the city (allegedly) has put a stop to. Wanna bet the majority of that poverty profiting lucre went to administrative and executive salaries?
Rob in Manhattan is right. Homes are selling for a million dollars and are being turned into rooming houses in single family neighborhoods. The fact that realtors are renting rooms in houses and stating that there are roommates already in place should signal to DOB that there are violations to the Zoning Resolution's SRO rules in these communities. (Single Room Occupancy)
>Next thing coming down the pike is if your a homeowner with small household and spare room/unused basement you MUST take these people
The law allows landlords to discriminate when it comes to renting rooms in the house they personally live in. They'd have to change that first before the slippery slope can get that tilted.
While James Oddo will never let this happen in his community. His borough is the only borough not to get a borough jail under the close rikers plan.
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