Mayor de Blasio is turning to a higher power for help with his ambitious affordable housing plan.
De Blasio is banking on the Catholic Church to help him reach his lofty target of 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10 years.
The church, mainly through its wing Catholic Charities, will work with the city to create new affordable housing units and to preserve cheap apartments that are already in use.
Catholic leaders have already offered up the former site of St. Augustine in the Bronx — a 162-year-old church that closed in 2012 and was demolished in December — and have meetings planned to redevelop as many as 10 other sites, said Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, the executive director of Catholic Charities.
The site of St. Augustine’s alone could hold “somewhere” around 100 units of low-cost housing, he said.
Sullivan said housing is a basic human right, and helping people of all faiths find it is part of the church’s mission.
Prepare to see a lot of church architecture replaced with crap. Of course, we're used to that...
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What ever happened to separation between church and state? Does that not have any relevancy nomore?
Sounds like someone needs a lesson in what separation of church and state actually means.
Hard to see anything wrong here. Religious organizations did a lot of good rehabbing the South Bronx.
What a tragedy - demolishing beautiful old churches...
And that's why all the smart money is leaving!
hmmm... and why would the Catholic Church be so motivated to sell and raise cash?
This city needs a saviour of some sort. DiBlasio is being a child and focused too much on this stupid affordable housing. What is the reason, it's an excuse to just develop more and throw more people in this city than it can support. What about all the other issues we have in this city. I'm sick of this guy already. It's all about money. I wish we had a mayor who first put this city into shape with city run agencies, infrastructure, preservation, environmental issues, budget changes and crime. Then worry about affordable housing and development. But that would be to good to be true.
By the way, it's Bill de Blasio.
He wants to increase the dependency class by any means necessary.
Of course, this is driving out the middle class, or at least the ones employed in the private sector, from the city, but this is the continuation of a trend that started in the 1970's.
We don't need 9 million people in this city. We don't have the infrastructure or the services to hold more people.
NO SECOND TERM! NO SECOND TERM! NO SECOND TERM! Let's go Crappy, post some signs....NO SECOND TERM!
Why do we need to build more housing for more people who are going to live off of welfare?
Everyone is taking from the cookie jar, and no one is putting anything in. What happens when the money runs out soon?
"NO SECOND TERM! NO SECOND TERM! NO SECOND TERM! Let's go Crappy, post some signs....NO SECOND TERM!"
I agree with you a 100 percent, but when election time comes most people won't be bothered to vote, and only the radicals who are in love with DeBlazio will vote and he will be re elected.
Rudy was elected after one term of Dinkins in 1994. That's a long time ago. A lot of the Giuliani voters have moved away or died. So I don't believe that as bad as De Blasio is, or could be, there can ever be an electoral majority to deny him a second term.
The only thing restraining De Blasio now is his dreams of higher office.
More voters and parishioners
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