Saturday, March 30, 2024

City of God

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 Queens Eagle

Mayor Eric Adams made a trip to Queens on Friday to announce a faith-based housing initiative that would allow houses of worship to more easily build affordable housing.

Adams, alongside South Queens clergy members and other elected officials, unveiled the plan, which he says will make it easier for faith-based organizations to add new housing on their property and generate income for their organizations through zoning law changes.

The initiative is included under the mayor’s expansive City of Yes housing program, which proposes zoning changes that would add “a little more housing in every neighborhood,” but has received some pushback from suburban areas in Queens and other boroughs from residents who are resistant to building up housing density in residential neighborhoods.

Highlighting one aspect of the plan on Friday, the mayor said the zoning law changes would allow faith campuses, which are typically large lots with multiple buildings on them, to create new housing on their available land.

“We cannot let old, outdated zoning rules keep us from building new housing and our mission driven, faith-based and community organizations can play a special role in this entire process,” said Adams from Antioch Baptist Church. “So, we say, ‘Yes, in God's backyard,’ today.”

As the city deals with an ongoing affordability crisis as well as an overcrowded shelter system, the hope is that programs like the one announced on Friday can open the door to more affordable housing in New York City neighborhoods, the mayor said.

“We're throwing open the door to new solutions and new housing that would help us solve the crisis by working with our churches, our synagogues, mosques and other faith organizations to build more housing and reclaim our city,” Adams said.

In Queens, Borough President Donovan Richards called the lack of affordable housing a “state of emergency.”

“We have 40,000 migrants in our care in this borough, but let me also add that we had a compounding issue with homelessness for a long time in our city as well,” he said at the church on Friday. “So, you add those two things together, and we are in a state of emergency – but there are some great signs of progress in the borough.”

Richards spoke in support of the faith-based housing plan, as well as City of Yes proposal more generally.

“This rezoning really gives us the opportunity to not just talk about the housing crisis but to get to be a part of the solution,” he said.

“I've heard from many of our leaders who want to be a part of the solution who want to do God's work, but who are really prohibited from doing it because sometimes…we have challenges in financing,” he added. “But one way to ensure we can move many of these projects forward is to do what God has called us to do and that is to take care of the least amongst us.”

The plan also aims to help the houses of worship. as well – a group that largely supported Adams’ bid for mayor – by allowing them to make revenue from the program.

“We have to have more flexibility,” Adams said. “We have to live in the real world. The ideal cannot collide with the real, and these faith-based leaders have been talking about this over and over again. They want to deliver more housing and we want to give them the opportunity to do so.”

 

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

What could go wrong ?

Anonymous said...

Great, besides doing enough damage now every Catholic church, school and property will house illegals tax free. And get $$ grants and rubber stamps to do so!!
This will completely destroy neighborhoods.
Criminals: "they are all children of god too"
....My ass cardinal Dolan!!

Anonymous said...

Is Joy Reid copying Donald Trump's haircut

Anonymous said...

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility

Anonymous said...

"Faith based"?
That's another way of saying, "believe what I tell you, because that's how it is".

Anonymous said...

Nice Tie Eric unlike the three at Radio City

Anonymous said...

Love the red dress...

Joe said...

What bullshit, The church, especially the Catholic church has caused enough problems paying these bus company's, lawyers, services, free stuff, services and protections to bring illegals here.
The senile Pope, Vatacan and Cardinal Dolan has even claimed that criminals, gang bangers and killers are "Still Children of God"
This piece of shit legislation turns the massive Catholic church into real estate developer's who will pay ZERO taxes.

The Catholic church will turn every school and property they own into slum barracks. As in make loads of $$$ on the misery of our backs not paying one cent of tax. Destroy and "diversify" the last remaining good neighborhoods for sure.

Do they really think this garbage they are coddling is the "magic fix" to re-seed the dying flock or fill collection plates?
This is the same underhanded organized crime mob of Drunks, misfits, perverts, criminals, loons, crazy nuns usually recruited from orphanages and nut houses. All the same lunatic fanatics they were when my mom was a catholic school teacher at St.Leonards, Melrose street in Bushwick during the 1960.
AKA "The Loony Bin"
She saw so much nasty shit, corruption (including hiding criminals and child molesters) she quit!!

I assure you nothing has changed and this will be a total disaster for many still decent neighborhoods!
No church can be trusted let alone the above mentioned who own just about every large property in this city!!!

Joe

Anonymous said...

the catholic church has always housed illegals and that is a fact all thru queens this has been going on for years and years now

georgetheatheist said...

Thanks, -Joe. Perceptive as always.

Joe said...

Thanks George, I sure had a front row seat to all that shit.

Its why I'm an atheist today. I still have a scar on my arm from jumping out the 2nd floor window of that catholic school. Those bastards one day decided to pull me out of class, bring me to the mother superior office, lock the door and go at me with sticks, paddles and baseball bats to get at my mother who wouldn't "look the other way and keep her mouth shut" ....Called her and other parents liars, shamed them, used physiological tactics to dismiss them.
Well some of the Italian business men on Troutman street also had kids in that school coming back with marks and black eyes and things sure changed:
In the end the diocese of Brooklyn called all everybody liars, bad Catholics and hid (they called it transferred) all the bastards, sold off church closed the school.
(The school still stands as some kind of asylum reform school and the church is now a huge section 8 barracks)

Should anybody trust the Catholic Church today?
HELL NO!!

-Joe

Anonymous said...

This democrat way of thinking is getting toxic


Joe said...

""the catholic church has always housed illegals and that is a fact all thru queens this has been going on for years and years now"

True: Over the past 50 years the churches have excelled in doing more damage to this city then all the lousy presidents mayors and governors put together.

2: What I dont get is why do Republicans including Trump, Republican Voters themselves stand by silent not speaking, not hearing, not seeing anything yet only blame and point fingers at democrats and progressives?
Its like the court scene with Dr.Zaius (defender of the faith) with the 3 orangutan judges in movie classic "Planet Of The Apes"..."sorry Taylor the decisions were per-ordained"
.....As after 100-200 years (in this country alone) the Republican's and most white middle class view in general is still in a big F~U to anybody who disagrees with the Catholic Church!
Can one Republican or Conservative have the guts to speak up explain this split tongue, special interest behavior?

As in why does the church get a pass, rubber stamp, back rub, kiss on the ass and reward for doing the most damage?

-Joe

Anonymous said...

"The church, especially the Catholic church has caused enough problems"

Disturbing what went on out in Massapequa for the funeral of NYPD police officer Jonathan Diller.
Govonor Hochul booed asked to leave and told she has blood on her hands.
Mayor Adams & Cardinal Dolan who have MORE blood on his hands treated like a king?

Whats up with this, I doubt in 2024 the majority of all those 15,000 or so cops & people in the church and out on the street were all Irish Catholic NYC cops like in the 1950s.
Not ONE called Cardinal Dolan or Adams out when both of these bastards were top of the gung ho list on backing no bail, no jail, no stop and frisk, sanctuary policy's and welcoming bus loads of Illegal immigrants and criminals.
How can the cops and all them people out on Long Island bow their heads like sheep for slaughter not in one single protest, BOO or simple "get the F_ outta here"
Somethings more then very wrong or political

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