I am not a de Blasio Dan. But Cuomo is an extraordinary disappointment, an ambitious egoist and has much in common with his cousin Christie across the river. He traded in his father's name and is a gifted orator but he is shallow and transparent. I would vote for almost anyone else and will do so next time around.
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Remind me again why there should be affordable housing in NYC? There's no affordable housing in Greenwich CT, Beverly Hills, or Lake Forest IL. I'm not being sarcastic. Manhattan is now zoned for the 1%. Restauranteurs like this fact. Why struggle to keep Manhattan financially diverse? Manhattan is going the way of the Hamptons.
I'm not even certain that Boston is financially diverse. The Greater Boston Area may be, but not really Boston proper. Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, and the North End are all expensive.
In 1989 in Boston, my mom was evicted from a rent control apartment that went condo. It was my home, but I am not sure that my mom added any amazing culture to that part of the city (she was pushed fifteen blocks north). I was unhappy that she was evicted, but I wouldn't have argued that she was any more culturally valuable than the people who bought the apartment as a condo.
Why struggle to keep Manhattan affordable? Why exactly is financial diversity of any value?
I'm not even certain that Boston is financially diverse. The Greater Boston Area may be, but not really Boston proper. Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, and the North End are all expensive.
In 1989 in Boston, my mom was evicted from a rent control apartment that went condo. It was my home, but I am not sure that my mom added any amazing culture to that part of the city (she was pushed fifteen blocks north). I was unhappy that she was evicted, but I wouldn't have argued that she was any more culturally valuable than the people who bought the apartment as a condo.
Why struggle to keep Manhattan affordable? Why exactly is financial diversity of any value?
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These two (Gov. and Mayor) deserve each.
The Mayor will likely be a one term Mayor and Gov. Cuomo didn't have the courage to run against Hillary so, just like his Dad, this is probably his peak elective office.
Ho Hum!
The Mayor will likely be a one term Mayor and Gov. Cuomo didn't have the courage to run against Hillary so, just like his Dad, this is probably his peak elective office.
Ho Hum!
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Boo Hoo for De Blasio. But now he can devote his full attention to his cockeyed trolley project and spare us his shallow and insincere yammering about Affordable Housing. The only thing Cuomo has deprived him of is providing his real estate buddies like 2 Trees with 421-a tax exemptions they never qualified for (over 10 million dollars) while illegally evicting rent stabilized tenants with astronomical rent stabilized increases. De Blasio through his negligence of his public duty to oversee the billion dollar plus annual tax exemptions has promoted the plundering of public resources by real estate developers for the sole purpose of their accumulation of private wealth. His response is to shrug and admit it has been an ongoing problem.
See https://www.propublica.org/article/tenants-take-hit-as-ny-fails-to-polic...
Not that Cuomo is any better but at least Preet Bahara is on to him and the multiple ways the 421-a has been used for graft. Now De Blasio may have to pump up the volume on his legally questionable Campaign for One New York slush fund exempt from campaign funding transparency. Evidently, for anyone doing business with the city, a donation is a pre-requisite. Don't forget that when De Blasio worked for Cuomo when he was at HUD, $23 million were unaccounted for in De Blasio region of responsibility.
Maybe Berlin/Rosen, the city's shadow government, can craft a dissembling press campaign to explain it. Good Luck
See https://www.propublica.org/article/tenants-take-hit-as-ny-fails-to-polic...
Not that Cuomo is any better but at least Preet Bahara is on to him and the multiple ways the 421-a has been used for graft. Now De Blasio may have to pump up the volume on his legally questionable Campaign for One New York slush fund exempt from campaign funding transparency. Evidently, for anyone doing business with the city, a donation is a pre-requisite. Don't forget that when De Blasio worked for Cuomo when he was at HUD, $23 million were unaccounted for in De Blasio region of responsibility.
Maybe Berlin/Rosen, the city's shadow government, can craft a dissembling press campaign to explain it. Good Luck
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Gov. Cuomo seems to use every opportunity to sabotage our mayor. He is heavily linked up with NYC real estate. the fix is in. New Yorkers will see through this. De Blasio is the man with the good of people in his heart. Cuomo drips with nastiness and ambition. We see you Cuomo! We know you! -Rudy
I am a senior lady from Rochester, NY (that's New York State). We have waiting lists for senior housing. Some five years long. We have a lake up here that we have to build around. Or on three sides of. I finally got an apartment after being on a waiting list since 2011. We don't have penthouses up here. The housing is very, very modest. The state built some senior towers here long ago but they have since fallen in to disrepair and are in dangerous neighborhoods (drugs, theft, even murders). Also, I am not a transplant from So. America, Iran, Iraq, or China. My family has been in the Mohawk Valley for a century or more. Ever watch the movie The Last of the Mohegans? That's a true account of how families of Eastern and Central New York were slaughtered by the Indians some forced on a march to Canada. Read about some of the history of your state and tell me things are fair to decendants of these peoples.
I now deeply regret I voted for Cuomo in the last election. He behaves like a petty Mafia capo who cannot abide being crossed. Affordable housing is an issue that Democrats should be able to agree upon and yet, solely because DeBlasio has defied Cuomo in the past, dear old Andy is willing to sabotage a good, workable agreement that might possibly actually benefit a lot of people.
A plague on this man's house! He is not worthy to govern this state.
A plague on this man's house! He is not worthy to govern this state.
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"Traditionally, the state has provided tax-free financing for large luxury projects that set aside 20 percent of apartments for poor and moderate-income tenants"
Why, exactly, should NY State augment inequality by furnishing tax exempt
financing for luxury "pied a terres" of the global 0.1% ?
Why, exactly, should NY State augment inequality by furnishing tax exempt
financing for luxury "pied a terres" of the global 0.1% ?
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How does the song go? "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right..."
NOBODY has done what really needs to be done for NYC housing:
--STRICT enforcement of housing safety and zoning laws--there should be random block by block inspections for ALL housing, and swift city takeovers of repairs where the landlords are letting their buildings fall apart/intimidating tenants/warehousing illegals ten to a room, etc.
--ENDING the warehousing of ultra-luxe real estate by the ultra rich by taxing the bejesus out of such holdings
--USING the funds from this to build more AFFORDABLE housing in neighborhoods, affordability being determined by the lower 1/3 of the income scale for that zip code/neighborhood
--ABSOLUTE incentivizing of businesses to build AFFORDABLE services in underserved neighborhoods that are otherwise food/service deserts
--Philly-style laws against oversaturation of chain stores unless they qualify as services attuned to the incomes of the immediate neighborhood
Of course, Hell will freeze over before we ever get politicians with both the will and the stones to do any of this, but one can dream.
NOBODY has done what really needs to be done for NYC housing:
--STRICT enforcement of housing safety and zoning laws--there should be random block by block inspections for ALL housing, and swift city takeovers of repairs where the landlords are letting their buildings fall apart/intimidating tenants/warehousing illegals ten to a room, etc.
--ENDING the warehousing of ultra-luxe real estate by the ultra rich by taxing the bejesus out of such holdings
--USING the funds from this to build more AFFORDABLE housing in neighborhoods, affordability being determined by the lower 1/3 of the income scale for that zip code/neighborhood
--ABSOLUTE incentivizing of businesses to build AFFORDABLE services in underserved neighborhoods that are otherwise food/service deserts
--Philly-style laws against oversaturation of chain stores unless they qualify as services attuned to the incomes of the immediate neighborhood
Of course, Hell will freeze over before we ever get politicians with both the will and the stones to do any of this, but one can dream.
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Cuomo has been pushing himself on NYC whenever he has the chance—remember him driving around during Sandy as if he was more in-charge than NYC (Bloomberg) officials. He has a poor record creating a vibrant upstate economy and in creating an ethical and crime-free state government -legislature.
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The State has consistently ignored NY City concern about zoning, density or practically every matter of local concern through the ESDC which can over ride local zoning and even landmarking. In Brooklyn Bridge park, the state is accused of violation the view plane from landmarked Brooklyn Heights promenade. In the Atlantic Yards project(now know as Pacific Park) the state through the EDC wants to reallocate 1.2 million additional sq feet to a site which the NY City zoning board limited to 440,000 through down zoning. The total site would be 1.6 million square feet west of Flatbush avenue(Atlantic yards is east of Flatbush). The State can do this by ignoring the local zoning.
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We are an extremely weak, leaderless, City, State, and Country, and have been for a very, very long time, and it keeps getting worse. The public has allowed this to happen, but you have the power to change this. Ignore the distractions of malicious and meaningless gossip and "news", mindless and mind-numbing "entertainment", consumption of so many things that are so unimportant (you know more about "gadgets" than you do each other), etc., and start sincerely knowing and caring about each other (especially others different from you). Get actively involved with each other, and in the leadership and governance of your country. YOU choose REAL leaders to be in leadership positions. Stop letting yourselves be so easily manipulated by the selfish people we have in leadership and policy-making positions who want money, power, and control, at all costs, and whose decisions and actions are the REAL causes of violence, poverty, unemployment, crime, inequality, injustice, etc., who don't care about you, and who consider all of you as "throwaways" when they are through using you. The result of your lack of involvement is the cause of the chaos, greed, corruption, incompetence, and worse, of the people we have in leadership positions that is rapidly destroying this country. It IS up to you to make the PEOPLE changes (not the "institutions" these non-leaders hide behind) that is necessary, and you will find it is easy to do, and exciting and meaningful, once you get started.
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Say what you will about the Mayor, but I don't see him as a political figure who would elevate a petty personal grudge over doing the public's business in the fairest and most effective way he can.
The Governor, on the other hand, seems totally indifferent to any actual human suffering so long as he can defeat, and ideally humiliate, a supposed rival.
The Governor, on the other hand, seems totally indifferent to any actual human suffering so long as he can defeat, and ideally humiliate, a supposed rival.
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There are 250,000 subsidized poor in NYC, paid to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
There are also 1,000,000 rent controlled/stabilized apartments - these older tenants can make up to $200,000 a year - while their younger and poorer market rate tenants make up the difference.
Add to that the uber rich, who are subsidized with tax breaks on their multi-million dollar apartments, but only if a portion of the building is set aside for the poor, from whom there will be no gratitude, but endless demands for more and more 'free' perks.
No city (or country, for that matter) needs more rich or more poor.
What is needed is a strong middle class, who gets nothing but the bill.
There are also 1,000,000 rent controlled/stabilized apartments - these older tenants can make up to $200,000 a year - while their younger and poorer market rate tenants make up the difference.
Add to that the uber rich, who are subsidized with tax breaks on their multi-million dollar apartments, but only if a portion of the building is set aside for the poor, from whom there will be no gratitude, but endless demands for more and more 'free' perks.
No city (or country, for that matter) needs more rich or more poor.
What is needed is a strong middle class, who gets nothing but the bill.
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Instead of perpetuating MYTHS here are some FACTS:
According to the 2014 Housing and Vacancy Survey most rent-controlled tenants are elderly and living on fixed incomes. Their average income is $29,000.00, and their average rent is $1,000.00.
Currently there are 27,000 rent-controlled apartments in the state (housing approximately 35,000 residents). In the last three years, more than 10,000 rent-controlled units have been lost
Although in December Governor Cuomo announced $11 million in grants for “affordable housing for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers” he is about to eliminate Rent Control.
As we speak the DHCR is considering raising the rents on rent-controlled apartments 9.6% per year, compounded.
All this at the same time that the RGB has frozen rent-stabilized apartments rents, and fuel costs have been cut in half. Similarly the Social Security Administration citing no increase in the Consumer Price Index has frozen its benefits.
In order to prevent the continuation of the wholesale eviction of elderly, low-income tenants New York State Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal has introduced a bill, A.398, which would change the method increases for rent-controlled tenants is calculated.
Governor Cuomo: Rent Control IS affordable housing.
According to the 2014 Housing and Vacancy Survey most rent-controlled tenants are elderly and living on fixed incomes. Their average income is $29,000.00, and their average rent is $1,000.00.
Currently there are 27,000 rent-controlled apartments in the state (housing approximately 35,000 residents). In the last three years, more than 10,000 rent-controlled units have been lost
Although in December Governor Cuomo announced $11 million in grants for “affordable housing for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers” he is about to eliminate Rent Control.
As we speak the DHCR is considering raising the rents on rent-controlled apartments 9.6% per year, compounded.
All this at the same time that the RGB has frozen rent-stabilized apartments rents, and fuel costs have been cut in half. Similarly the Social Security Administration citing no increase in the Consumer Price Index has frozen its benefits.
In order to prevent the continuation of the wholesale eviction of elderly, low-income tenants New York State Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal has introduced a bill, A.398, which would change the method increases for rent-controlled tenants is calculated.
Governor Cuomo: Rent Control IS affordable housing.
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@ Vic Losick
Then the tenant should be subsidized, not the apartment, which only causes tenants from staying in the same apartment for 50+ years, even if it is a three bedroom and they have lived alone for decades.
And while there may be only 27,000 rent-controlled apartments, but you seem to have forgotten to mention the one million rent stabilized apartments, as if having 1 out of every 8 apartments permanently off the market in a city of 8 million people is completely irrelevant.
Then the tenant should be subsidized, not the apartment, which only causes tenants from staying in the same apartment for 50+ years, even if it is a three bedroom and they have lived alone for decades.
And while there may be only 27,000 rent-controlled apartments, but you seem to have forgotten to mention the one million rent stabilized apartments, as if having 1 out of every 8 apartments permanently off the market in a city of 8 million people is completely irrelevant.
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I am addressing only Rent Control apartments. As affordable housing units they already exist. Nothing is needed to accommodate these 35,000 by and large elderly, low-income residents.
In 1969 a Mayoral ticket suggested New York City secede from the State and become a City-State in the Union. Then a few years later the financial crisis hit and the city lost a good amount of its autonomy to Albany. That was over forty years ago and little has returned. We could cut our taxes by a third if we left the State. We know what we need in Brooklyn, Manhattan and other boroughs. We are a Democracy with elected Officials of our own if unhappy with their decisions we vote them out of office but we do not need them restrained by upstate politicians taking the NYC hand outs!! Let Buffalo fund Buffalo with its own taxes.
New Yorkers need to understand one thing: Albany's political establishment does not care about NYC. It doesn't matter who is Governor and Mayor. Every year NYC sends $12 billion more tax dollars to Albany then it receives in return spending and services. NYC taxpayer dollars are building roads upstate for deer while the infrastructure and housing in the city crumbles. Until the fundamental contribution/return mismatch is addressed, NYC's development is going to be held back by "upstate."
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As a resident of the lovely Upstate NY and friend to all deers statewide we thank you for your tax dollars. #DeerRoadsMatter
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I regret so much my vote for Cuomo. I thought he would be a progressive but he's a corrupt NY politician that does not care about regular people. Shame on you Mr. Cuomo
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Instead of perpetuating a few housing winners over the majority of losers who pay market rates above what they should be paying if landlords didn't have to cover losses from stabilized tenants how about scrapping rent regulations. With an additional million units on the market free market rates would decrease for the majority of New Yorkers while the pampered, greedy rent control/stabilized tenants will have to pay their fair share. And if you're poor and a subsidized tenant all your life the gravy train is over. You will have to move to an area that you can actually afford to live in.
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John Smith - greedy rent controlled, pampered tenants? I would really like to know how things are set up there in NYC. If you read my post -N. Owens - I live in Rochester. The only ones building low income housing for us is the Catholic Church. We don't have rent control. We have Section 8. I was a housewife for the first part of my marriage then divorced. My SS income reflects that at only $804.00 a month. Sanders and Clinton have suggested a raise in SS of $3,400.00 for anyone under $12,000 yr. I doubt it will happen but I hope it will but only according to need. People who game the system and hide income not allowed.
The Times fails not only its readers, but also all New Yorkers when it reports on this story as an issue of personality between two antagonists: Cuomo and de Balsio. Sticking to a well-worn trope of clashing personalities may make for easy reporting and may sell newspapers, while not wholly alienating either politician, but it is a false narrative. Cuomo has repeatedly used his power and position to needless block action on a range of issues important to New York City residents, not just affordable housing, but mass transit and safer streets initiatives, among others. Sadly, The Times is unwilling to hold Cuomo accountable.
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We need to start electing adults. How about a new political party that serves one purpose only: To identify candidates who are effective, collaborative and smart. Imagine what we might accomplish.
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Andrew Cuomo is socially liberal. Big whoop. but He is actually a republican. On every front he has made social safety nets a complete and utter hassle to get in New York, from Unemployment (which you pay for) to APIC. He has really changed the values of our state government into something completely different. He has turned New York into a state like Florida. I really hope we replace him with a real Democrat/liberal. Andrew Coumo wants to control everything and loathes any ideas of fiscal liberalism. My god I can't stand him!
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You mean a real "democrat/liberal like de Blasio??? No thank you. The man isn't qualified to pick up the garbage and Cuomo is no better, please don't call him a republican, he is not. Just a dem showing his true colors. de Blasio's vision of a new NY City is wrong. He's turned a blind eye to crime and is in denial about the state of the city. He is the Peter Principle defined.
This is becoming more than silly. Its time they put the people first.
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You asked for it, you got it! "Empty-suit" Andy.
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Cuomo wants to be president of the USA. He needs to get credit for building affordable housing. He requires that AH be built by union workers adding to costs and firming his union support. He does not want to be granted credit when ,as Secretary of housing, he pressured banks to give mortgages to unqualified applicants which led to the real estate bubble creating the great depression of 2008.
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It appears that Cuomo feels the same way about Deblasio that most of us do. Can't stand him.
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New York City should become its own state! Time after time we've been hindered and used by people that are just moochers of the City's infrastructure and culture but don't want to contribute to its upkeep.
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The Mayor and Governor can not work together for the best interests of NYC residents. Is it Governor Cuomo's huge ego and power grab or Mayor de Blasio's weak and ineffective government, I think some of both. We watch as republicans and democrats fail to do the people's business in Washington, here in New York we get to watch democrats fail to do what the people of New York so desperately need. This is shameful, people need affordable homes. Andrew Cuomo needs to step back and stop bullying the city and Mayor Di Blasio needs to get his government moving forward.
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People need affordable homes, but they do not 'need' them in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
There is no justification for subsidizing the poor, many of whom do not work, to live in NYC, while the middle class gets nothing but a long expensive commute.
There is no justification for subsidizing the poor, many of whom do not work, to live in NYC, while the middle class gets nothing but a long expensive commute.
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The middle class also need affordable homes, the city is home to the very rich and the very poor, we need the middle class to come back. And their is every reason to subsidize the poor, New Yorkers believe in a safety net, they believe in services for people who need help. One of the richest cities in the world can help those in need.
The headline and lede of the article seem to cast blame on both de Blasio and the governor, but all I see here is Cuomo's ego run amok, again, with NYC paying the price.
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I've been subscribed to receive email notifications when applications open in New York city for both city and state sponsored affordable housing for a numbers of years now. A few points:
1. Until the last couple of years new affordable housing from the city's program has outpaced state sponsored housing by at least 10 to 1. In the last two years I don't remember receiving a notice for any state sponsored ones at all.
2. The city sponsored affordable housing units have at least 3 different rental levels based on income level, household size and number of bedrooms. The highest ('middle' income) units income threshold typically tops out just shy of $100k annual income and that's for household sizes of 2 to 3 or higher. The rents for these units at that income level are often well north of $2,000 per month. So a couple with combined income of say 90k and 1 or 2 children are still expected to pay 2k or almost 3k in rent - between $24,000 and $36,000 per year. Typically when I look at these applications the rent I would be paying (assuming I get randomly picked) is more than I'm currently paying in a market rate apartment. Bottom line: not that great of a deal. It would appear developers have many friends at city hall.
3. The state sponsored programs usually only have a two tier income framework and for both tiers the rents are *much* more affordable. but like I stated, are much rarer and basically non-existent right now.
1. Until the last couple of years new affordable housing from the city's program has outpaced state sponsored housing by at least 10 to 1. In the last two years I don't remember receiving a notice for any state sponsored ones at all.
2. The city sponsored affordable housing units have at least 3 different rental levels based on income level, household size and number of bedrooms. The highest ('middle' income) units income threshold typically tops out just shy of $100k annual income and that's for household sizes of 2 to 3 or higher. The rents for these units at that income level are often well north of $2,000 per month. So a couple with combined income of say 90k and 1 or 2 children are still expected to pay 2k or almost 3k in rent - between $24,000 and $36,000 per year. Typically when I look at these applications the rent I would be paying (assuming I get randomly picked) is more than I'm currently paying in a market rate apartment. Bottom line: not that great of a deal. It would appear developers have many friends at city hall.
3. The state sponsored programs usually only have a two tier income framework and for both tiers the rents are *much* more affordable. but like I stated, are much rarer and basically non-existent right now.
How about some serious discussion regarding the lack of means testing for rent controlled and stabilized apartments? If even a small portion of those tax-payer subsidized apartment are reallocated to lower income New Yorkers, it would help solve the problem!
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There is means testing...a family cannot make more than $200,000 a year and still be subsidized.
Those poor families!
Those poor families!
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It's not the Cuomo-De Blasio feud that threatens affordable housing financing. It's Cuomo's ego, plain and simple. He'd create these problems with any politician that dare defy him. Remember the Moreland commission, which Cuomo used to dig up dirt on other Albany pols so they'd do his bidding, and then shut down before they could prosecute so he could use that as leverage?
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Oxymoron - Affordable housing in New York
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Congratulations to two New York Times endorsees for acting like mature adults, and to the voters of NY for following the NYT/Democrat clown car over the cliff.
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Newsflash - neither Cuomo nor DeBlasio are doing anything about maintaining decent market-rate housing in this city, especially in areas of hyper-develpment. Residents rightly perceive the NYC Dept. Of Buildings being in collusion with developers, along with their masters the Mayor and Governor.
And whenever the politicians talk "affordable housing" it's a signal that yet again, the middle class and small business that pays the bulk of the taxes in this city, gets nothing for their "investment."
And whenever the politicians talk "affordable housing" it's a signal that yet again, the middle class and small business that pays the bulk of the taxes in this city, gets nothing for their "investment."
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Both the rich and the poor get subsidies, as if we needed to pay people to live in NYC.
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A battle between a corrupt state government and a corrupt city government over the most corrupt and unproductive program in its history, the outcome of which is hinging on a disagreement between its corrupt labor unions and corrupt construction industry. Always a pleasure to read about before breakfast. Please keep us informed, NYT, on who wins, though we know in advance it won't be any affordable housing in the city.
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Cuomo's as corrupt as Sheldon Silver.
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Looks like the governor has little faith the mayor can get anything done. Maybe he has a point, the mayor, beholden to the special interests that elected him, developers, unions and his financial backers, doesn't seem to be able to move on any front except the endless meetings that happen within the bloated bureaucracy of his administration. Lots of meeting and no movement on most fronts. He up for re-election in 17' and has little to show for his two years in office. The pre-k movement he crows about was actually funded by the state and would not have happened if it was dependent on 'raising taxes on the rich'. While the mayor has the best intentions, his administration has been unable to get anything done since he took office, except make more promises he won't be able to keep, trapped as he is between a rock and a hard place, beholden to his benefactors. Maybe that's why the governor is stepping in.
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Cuomo thinks that stopping progressive action will help him acheive higher office, instead his refusal to work with de Blasio will get him ousted. We the people of the Southern NY can see what he is doing.
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No one is willing to go on record about these two egos conflicting on a matter of significant importance to the citizens of NYC because they fear repercussions from Albany? That's on Cuomo.
de Blasio needs to see this through.
de Blasio needs to see this through.
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typical government modus operandi
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Developers aren't worried about affordable housing. They are worried about the gravy train stopping! Whenever you thing 421 affordable housing think One57 and a $100 million penthouse! Affordable housing is a smoke screen for funneling more money to developers. When all is said and done, affordable housing units produced with these developer friendly programs cost the citizens of NYC millions per unit created, if any, as developers laugh all the way to the bank.
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Cuomo should be receiving more flak than he is for his actions. It obviously upset him to see de Blasio elected (in his backyard) as a progressive Democrat. He has not gone out of his way to do a 180 on pre-K, charter schools, the homeless and now affordable housing. These are issues he had barely if ever mentioned until de Blasio championed them.
Just how obvious and devious does Cuomo need to be before more New Yorkers start to criticize his behavior. This is not him and the mayor having a personal disagreement---this is the Governor intentionally submarining the mayor and the city so that HE receives the credit for the mayors ideas and issues. Jeez Louise!
Just how obvious and devious does Cuomo need to be before more New Yorkers start to criticize his behavior. This is not him and the mayor having a personal disagreement---this is the Governor intentionally submarining the mayor and the city so that HE receives the credit for the mayors ideas and issues. Jeez Louise!
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Please!!! What ideas. The mayor whines but when it comes to real estate developers he stuffs their pockets with public funds and refuses to enforce the law leaving hundreds of thousands units unregistered and tenants to the failed justice of the Kings County Housing Court known as the Landlord's Collection Agency. De Blasio is a hypocrite of the worst order.
The city feels like it has been turned over to developers and builders and we the people don't have a voice. It looks like Cuomo is monopolizing power and he is not like his father because he doesn't show empathy for the little guy who has to scuttle between and among construction sites. It looks like Cuomo can't work with De Blasio. The city isn't all that autonomous as suggested by Anthony Weiner recent comments.
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More nonsense from the Democrats' clown car in New York. While Democrats act like children, the people get hurt.
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Sounds just like the kind of thing one would say about the republican controlled Senate.
Politicians need to remember who they represent. Often they do not.
Politicians need to remember who they represent. Often they do not.
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