RW3Bro t1_j0i7flg wrote on December 16, 2022 at 8:49 PM

Reply to comment by ChrisFromLongIsland in State Orders NYC To Drop Foie Gras Sales Ban, Says Ban Violates NY Agricultural Law by Gato1980

My issue isn’t with the Midwesterners who want to move to one of the crown jewels of humanity. As long as NYC is what it is, that demand will always exist on an enormous scale.

My issue is the developers that would in an instant, no matter the objections of the community and their elected representatives, build over everything that makes this city great and slap up yet another cheaply-constructed building if it’d make them a quick buck.

Tearing down neighborhoods to put up grossly overpriced gentrification buildings with a small allocation for “affordable” housing will never put a dent in this city’s housing supply-demand dynamic, much in the same way that building another lane on the highway doesn’t reduce traffic.

So yeah, I don’t blame the people who want to move here, I blame the developers who’ve bribed our past two mayors to the point of wholly owning them and shown nothing but scorn for the people who actually already live in Brooklyn, Harlem, and Queens.

ChrisFromLongIsland t1_j0izxe5 wrote on December 17, 2022 at 12:17 AM

I do appreciate your detailed response.

I don't really agree with it. Very little had been built over the past 30 years especially when you compare it to the period from 1800 to about 1950. In the 90s and early 2000 most of the development was rehabbing what was burnt out or run down from the decay of the 70s and 80s.

It sounds like you want to basically stop all development. If you stop development prices will go no where but up. It's an issue the country has been grappling with amd especially CA and the northeast for 40 years. Do we move past what has been built and build up or keep the neighborhoods as they are. By and large they have been left alone but prices have zoomed higher.