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WallaceWatch t1_j0hrwez wrote
Is the article saying KRJ wanted the building to be 100% affordable at 30% the median income!?!? Gotta learn politics is the art of the compromise....perhaps the hard way
KaiDaiz t1_j0hshyq wrote
Wouldn't of matter if it was 100% affordable. She didn't want any more non blacks moving into her district. That was the main reason why she killed it. She preferred the least # of units built in a futile attempt to delay the changing demographics of her area.
Wowzlul t1_j0iktcb wrote
That was just a pretext, a requirement that couldn't practicably be fulfilled. She doesn't want anyone who doesn't already live there moving to the neighborhood. It's classic nativism dressed up in new language.
DadBodofanAmerican t1_j0mr21d wrote
Because new voters might not be as maleable as the ones who elected her. Can't risk the same old Harlem machine politicians losing power.
Wowzlul t1_j0mriq3 wrote
It's bizarre to witness nyc's transformation from "diverse global migrant city of the world" to "first in time first in right"
George4Mayor86 t1_j0i3115 wrote
She got exactly what she wanted. The goal was never more affordable housing, it was no housing at all.
leg_day t1_j0junji wrote
> 100% affordable at 30% the median income
Insanity. That's called public housing. The city is welcome to build more of it if that is the best route to alleviating the housing crisis.
Shreddersaurusrex t1_j0uean2 wrote
Federal law prevents it
leg_day t1_j0v5iv5 wrote
Who would have standing to actually prevent a city or state from doing this? Who would be materially and irreparably harmed by public housing that they could challenge it under federal law?
NetQuarterLatte t1_j0hm9ot wrote
PSA: Council member Richardson Jordan in Harlam will have several challengers next year.
Yusef Salaam (of the 'Exonerated 5') will be one of the candidates in that race.
https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/yusef-salaam-exonerated-5-joins-harlem-city-council-race
Wowzlul t1_j0il1ta wrote
> Yusef Salaam (of the 'Exonerated 5') will be one of the candidates in that race.
Damn that's quite a move for someone who's gone through that.
spicytoastaficionado t1_j0mut89 wrote
And if she gets primaried, the developer can just restart the proposal process again to get the lot re-zoned, and he could even do so by offering more favorable terms for himself (AKA not 1/2 affordable units).
Evening_Presence_927 t1_j0ir0as wrote
[citation needed]
KaiDaiz t1_j0hn5g5 wrote
Well KRJ did complain new housing will impact parking as one of her reasons to deny plan. Now she will get plenty of parking...just for trucks.
El_Nahual t1_j0lfxbs wrote
People like Kristin Richardson are misanthropes. They believe there is dignity in squalor, poverty and struggle. They do not believe in integration or community.
Of course, they wrap themselves in the labels that mean the opposite: they call themselves progressives and antiracists , even though their acts are designed to shittify their neighborhoods, destroy public education, and segregate the city.
If you asked a 1950s segregationist racist how to vote, he'd agree with her 99% of the time.
1600hazenstreet t1_j0js0ye wrote
Hope those are the brand new EV semi and not diesel trucks.
isowater t1_j0m13iy wrote
😂😂😂
neodymiumPUSSYmagnet t1_j0j1u4d wrote
Crybaby developer is gonna earn less in rent than is necessary to cover property taxes to own the libs lol
spicytoastaficionado t1_j0mshng wrote
The developer owns a luxury real estate firm, so in all likelihood revenue from a truck dept in Harlem isn't even a rounding error in his overall portfolio.
On the flipside, a predominantly-Black Harlem neighborhood is going to have to deal with more noise, more pollution, and more traffic, to "own the rich".
And that isn't my assessment. It is what Harlem-based environmental justice group WE Act has said.
The One45 development would have included 917 units (1/2 affordable housing-- well above city minimum), retail spaces, and even a civil rights museum. The proposal also called for the dev. to finance and build a whole new playground.
Now the neighborhood doesn't get any of that, and instead gets a bunch of traffic and pollution.
Who's "owning" who here?
Shreddersaurusrex t1_j0ueh0x wrote
The museum would have been unnecessary. Schomburg is about 10 blocks south.
spicytoastaficionado t1_j0ih0pi wrote
The One45 proposal was incredibly generous when it came to affordable housing allocation, and seeing Richardson Jordan burn it all to the ground in some deluded NIMBY rage, to the detriment of her own community, was quite something.