Yeah I was going to say there’s quite a few in queens still. But this exact headline comes up on this sub monthly.

That’s not how any of this works. You can’t just build another floor. There’s zoning laws that are designed to cause a housing crisis.

Not all basement apartments are the same. For every dangerous or suboptimal one there are plenty perfectly good ones.

You’re going to add another floor to your single or multiple family home?

The whole point of legalizing ADUs is to regulate it so that doesn’t happen. Instead of how it is now in the shadows.

Rent control is only harmful because the city and state passed zoning laws that had no purpose but to increase congestion (parking) and make larger apartments (density). So we ended up with developers who could only build a limited number of very large units that were expensive af to construct.

If we reversed all of the zoning changes from the 60s we could actually make the rent affordable for everyone.

I think it was more that it was reactionary rather than based on sound logic.

The shelter population was going to explode this summer even without a manufactured migrant crisis. The eviction moratorium expired while inflation and rent soared. Besides that, the shelter population is always highest in summer.

The mayor, who was warned about this when he took office decided to take zero preventive or reactionary steps. He proposed a laundry list of ideas to help people move out of shelters and into permanent housing. Yet as of today, he has implemented zero with no plans to ever do so. So what do we have? A growing shelter population while average time in shelter is at over two years for families.

The city would rather spend $5300 a month per person (the cost of the awful homeless shelter on Randall’s island right next to the HERC) than take any steps toward meaningful reform.