Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Eric Adams enthusiastically announced plans for the city to build 100,000 affordable apartments in the next 5 years in his “City Of Yes” program. The City Of Yes program/doctrine will make it easier for the NYC housing and building departments to expedite building permits faster with little regulation and even community input under the rubric for the need to stem the housing affordability and homeless crises in the five boroughs. While noble and necessary, it still needs to be ratified into law by City Council.
But it was only a year and a half ago when Mayor Adams and his “team” went to Southeast Queens to announce an affordable housing program initiative for to give the opportunity for lower income earning residents to own their own houses. Partnering with Jimmy Carter’s Habitat for Humanity, the city’s Housing and Preservation Department took over 16 houses that were neglected and then abandoned by the notorious NYCHA and had them demolished so they can build new environmentally sound “green” houses in their place. During the presentation which also announced new infrastructure to mitigate constant flash flooding from extreme storms, early SE Queens native Mayor Eric Adams promised that these homes will revive the neighborhoods that were neglected by past administrations.
One of those homes is this corner on 126th and 116th avenue.
Promises made, promises slept.
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Surely, another tax cut for the rich will speed up the process of building new "affordable" houses?
FDR silenced dissenters using the FCC to coerce radio stations. Democrat censorship goes back a century.
Habitat for humanity is for communists.
Let the free market economy, aka BlackRock own all property.
@"FDR silenced dissenters using the FCC to coerce radio stations. Democrat censorship goes back a century. "
Yeah, I head that from someone else too at a recent book burning down in Florida.
Is Habitat for Humanity a scam?
In my personal opinion I think so. You're paying pretty much full price for a house. And when you die it goes back to habitat for humanity. Your children cannot inherit it so I'm told. So in other words you're just paying mortgage for 30 years to more or less rent it. For them to turn around and sell it again.
Pretty impressive to STILL be called a “NON PROFIT” WITH ALL THE GREASY PALMS in this.
I wonder will this come up in the vice-presidential debate later on today?
Or will they be too busy grovelling to their Orange Master?
FDR was the only decent president of the 20th century. Fascist are still trying to roll back what he created without success.
Did someone say, RentACrowd?
My barber could have told you giving $700,000 loans to welfare recipients was not a good idea.
@Kitara said... Sharing crack with hunter again ? Sad...
@“ Did someone say, RentACrowd?”
Yeah, I hear $50 each is the going rate in MI. That’s what you would call, MAGA.
@“ Sharing crack with hunter again ? Sad...”
All you got is hate and divisiveness. Typical rightwing strategy.
@"Yeah, I hear $50 each is the going rate in MI."
Luckily for him that he didn't go to a Union plant. He'd have to pay much more than that.
@ "FDR was the only decent president of the 20th century"
Who told you that ? It's not true.
If FDR’s New Deal policies weren’t conceived with racist intent, they certainly had racist consequences.
Why it’s so hard for people deeply embedded in left-wing ideology to break free from it ?
I'm so glad I educated myself and did my own research! I wish many more people would! Education doesn't stop when you are done with school. Self education should never stop!
The big issue is that our hard earned taxpayer dollars enable this waste in the uniparty city.
@"I'm so glad I educated myself and did my own research!"
Reading the NY Post and other such comic books can't be counted as educating yourself. Sooner or later you'll have to move on from picture books.
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