Sunday, September 15, 2019

What housing crisis?

I thought we had a housing crisis in this city but apparently not. This was originally row houses that later on a couple of those row houses was turned into a church and now this is what it is. Meanwhile, on francis Lewis Blvd by the hmart only a few blocks away, there Is office space for rent and right up the block from this is a couple of more office spaces that are vacant. One of these offices actually just moved from up the block to over here leaving their old office space vacant. Also, there is more office spaces/small bank going on up the block and across the street from this as well. Why does the government say we are in a crisis then knocks down houses that can be used? Who approves this to go on?

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Zoned R3-2 with a Commercial C2-2 Overlay ...

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&passjobnumber=421646357&passdocnumber=01

Anonymous said...

A crisis is declared in order to separate us from our money, a politician is nothing more than a thief

Anonymous said...

That is some real Queens Crap !

Anonymous said...

It's not a housing crisis, it's a stagnant wage crisis. Been going on for 40 years. You can google it. If people earned more money they could afford to rent or buy apartments. The barely-affordable apartment lotteries are a total scam-- on tax payers. Developers make out like bandits.

Rob in Manhattan said...

"Why does the government say we are in a crisis then knocks down houses that can be used? Who approves this to go on? "

Answer: Your precious "free market". If government intervened here there would be the inevitable cries of "property rights violation".

You can't blame people who've wasted their waking hours working -usually for someone else, in order to buy one of those shitboxes, for then wanting to extract all available value from them.

Those "churches" as with all else in those ancient superstitions are a scam, but they do make home ownership possible for some people.

Rob in Manhattan

Anonymous said...

I know, I know, I hate to say it, but can't wait for NYC to be like the 70's and early 80's......Thanks to Dumbasio and all those stupids who voted for him..TWICE !!!!!!

Anonymous said...

It's not a housing crisis, it's a stagnant wage crisis. Been going on for 40 years. You can google it. If people earned more money they could afford to rent or buy apartments. The barely-affordable apartment lotteries are a total scam-- on tax payers. Developers make out like bandits.

Yes. Part of that is true. Our wages have been frozen for a while now but even if you got a raise of 10000 per year tomorrow, there would still be no way that most people would still be able to afford houses here. When you see things like 60000 homeless people and citizens not being able to afford houses, then one should start thinking to yourself "where is the problem?". Our problem lays with the fact that the politicians in New York have sold out citizens for foreign money. If foreign investors weren't allowed to purchase houses in already overcrowded cities then we wouldnt have the problems we have. Why should any noncitizen be even eligible to purchase our homes? Before I moved away 15 years ago, houses here only cost about 300k. Then when I moved back six years later, they were atleast 500k. The amount they charge for homes in NYC is just literally crazy. And personally, I think all of NYC is overrated. I'm proud to be born and raised in NYC but it is overrated and thats why I moved further out to suffolk county. I still visit my parents out in queens but I'm glad I'm away from there.

Anonymous said...

Isn't there a provision in the rent control law that when vacancies exceed a certain proportion, rent control dies?

Anonymous said...

I keep asking this, but why do you folks choose to live in this city. It is not the only city in the entire country. Why stay then continue to bitch knowing full well that nothing will change there. NYC is an aberration and a bad one at that.

Anonymous said...

Bangladesh, right?

Anonymous said...

For once, I mostly agree with Commie Rob in Manhattan. I never thought it would happen.

Harry Bingham IV

Anonymous said...

YET ANOTHER manufactured, MAN MADE crisis is declared in order to separate We, the People from our money, a politician is nothing more than a thief

❝The worst illiterate is political illiterate; he hears nothing, sees nothing, and takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicine all depends on political decisions. He even prides himself in his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics.

He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber, and worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.❞ —Bertolt Brecht, February, 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956

❝A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?❞ —Marcus Cicero

❝The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.❞ —Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)

❝The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening❞ —George Orwell (Big Brother character from Orwell's book, '1984')

❝To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist; that is all.❞ —Oscar Wilde

❝The system cannot be fixed by the system.❞ ―Tom Morello

❝Sooner or later, the people in this country are going to realize the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn't care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn't give a fuck about you.❞ —George Carlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

Anonymous said...

Rob: no one complains about the government enforcing existing zoning regulations, or establishing some sensible density regulations.

The only people who complain about such things are outlets like Curbed, which is owned by Vox Media, which is owned by Comcast.

We'll have a real crisis when Curbed starts declaring single family zoning as "white supremacist". Well, actually, they have already started:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/la.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/9/10/17827982/single-family-houses-los-angeles-zoning-rules-explained

This is nothing. The single/two family zoning regs are the next big hammer to fall. It's coming, and dressed in social justice platitudes as usual.

Anonymous said...

You can't blame people who've wasted their waking hours working -usually for someone else, in order to buy one of those shitboxes, for then wanting to extract all available value from them.

Those "churches" as with all else in those ancient superstitions are a scam, but they do make home ownership possible for some people.

For who are they making home ownership possible for? Not citizens that's for sure. The churches buy up properties and rent them out to their own members. Then on top of that, they arent charged taxes. What kind of bs is that?

Anonymous said...

❝The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.❞ —Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)

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Quote that is taped to Trump's mirror that he looks at every morning.

Anonymous said...

And I'd love to see the 'diversity score' of the Chinese construction/demolition companies that work on these properties. 40 years in Flushing and I've never seen a black man or woman on a construction site for the "housing boom" in Flushing. I've seen diversified union workers in LIC, but not in northeast Queens. Not saying that quota based hiring is good, just saying that if everyone else has to do it, then so should they.

It's egalitarianism that got them in the country and afforded them the ability to decimate these neighborhoods. But they extend no egalitarian ethics in return. It's an insular in-group cartel of Chinese-only workers, in a Chinese-only economy.

They worship utilitarianism in a way that western Europeans never did. They even have a religion (Falun Dafa) that incorporates reverence for technology into its dogma.

TommyR said...

Anon⁴ has the partial right of it. That, and massive speculatively driven land value increases.

Anonymous said...

Well, yea, Trump's SALT tax is working, punishing the left for electing Dumblatsio