Lol the city’s inaction at curtailing landlord gouging ? The city is just as much to blame in a sense because they let greedy landlords charge whatever they want.

But let’s be real here landlords are getting greedier post Covid and it’s our problem now.

And your contractual rights are subject to regulations under current law because you’re putting the space on an open market and we can regulate for the public good which good cause is undoubtedly.

Good then that’ll flood the condo market and make tons of 150-300k 1 beds in Flatbush available. Either way landlords have too much power and this bill is desperately needed. If you like licking landlord boot just say so. But just know if you’re a renter they genuinely detest you deeply.

Oh yea let me just drop 300k on a down payment and by something right quick

You assume they even care

Non profit doesnt mean they don’t make a profit

That’s false, upbringing and family structure failure is related to poverty all the same and correlates with crime

Unfortunately I’m sure our capitalist society forced the city to kowtow to developers and we need more shelter space so I’m sure they reluctantly chose that

Like find this money in taxes on wealthier New Yorkers and nypd cuts ffs

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/17/politics/ron-desantis-bill-protests-private-residence-florida/index.html

And he arrested people who were felons that voted when the state told them to vote in a phony crackdown on voter fraud.

As to the African studies thing, you are just wrong the commission made the determination and he backed it. Let’s say Hochul banned us history because it delves to far into nationalism? Would you honestly be sitting here making excuses for it? I wouldn’t because it’s wrong.

What is happening in Florida is unprecedented and scary, just because you support those things doesn’t mean the precedent isn’t unnerving. Imagine someone you didn’t like started doing the same shit to you?

It also shows you all don’t value diverse ideas in the public education realm, you want an echo chamber and you are willing to hack someone who is slowly dictating a certain nationalist view of the us to kids instead of giving kids a broad overview of thoughts and ideals.

It’s not gonna work anyways, younger kids are increasingly radical and see through it all anyways and gen z and alpha are the most diverse, and sexually divergent generations yet by the numbers so good luck.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/desantis-banning-african-american-studies-00079027

I’m not talking about trans people at all I’m talking about banning books from the library, arresting protestors for certain speech, and banning AP African American history just because.

Let’s be real if Hochul did that you’d be concerned

What are you saying? its momentary regional growth that happens in under developed cities, new york has 8 million plus residents its never going to have anything higher than single digit growth. Its like yea of course botswana has a 20% growth rate and the us is lucky to have 4% the US is fully developed as is NYC compared to jacksonville.

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And part of what you are saying is the public perception of NYC not the reality of actual violent crime statistics.

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And the only thing they are doing right is poaching New Yorkers by failing to tax people to provide basic healthcare, transit, and educational services, all while clamping down on academic freedom in their schools. For a certain type of selfish new yorker who has the money to hide themselves away in a planned suburban town it works, but its not a sustainable means of living. Let florida have all those people though. The midterms showed that republicans are concentrating themselves into like Florida and texas.

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I have lived in both and I felt far safer in NYC than Jacksonville.

Big cities in florida are on average far less safe. Lets take jacksonville and compare the gangviolence problem to NYC, its not even close Jacksonville is a far worse place in terms of violent crime. Its your perception and the big city nature of NYC that gets the wrap

Because a lot of Floridians are nyc refugees from south bk who never loved their fellow mek all that much. The type who fears gang violence in a safe Miami neighborhood.

For example if there is a subway grate below you and you’re on an avenue you know that train (usually the one you just got off of is running below you depends on the station though)

Then you can look down the block and see if the street number decreases or increases and get a sense of north south if you’re on an avenue !

Sometimes when you are in a new station and you talk 3 turns and a stairwell to get to street level you forget which way the train was running.

It helps to know if you are standing near an avenue and if there is a subway grate below. That is giveaway for me of north south vs East west and the rest is context

Has to be the right building, it needs to be Austrian style government controlled housing that we contract out, needs to be fast tracked, set up a special administrative court to hear legal claims and get 200k rent controlled units on the market at cost. This is how we tackle this. The private market isn’t going to fix housing

Casinos are symptoms of problems despite them being harmless

The same way a human being might “not mind” being force fed sweets and other Shit by a higher intelligent being right?

Any lack of consent being forced on animals without absolute necessity for society is inhumane. Anything that can be feasibly done to mitigate animal abuse should be done

Such an impressively fucked up situation

More barriers to entry and selection of tenants just like an apartment building, whereas homeless shelters operate under specific mandates, they have more latitude to build healthier communities and exclude problematic tenants

Oh didn’t think of it that way haha

How nice of them ?

My partner has a living wage job in the art world (so proud of her) and she pointed this out last week about how fucked the art world is

Build what then, more “luxury buildings”? And why does it matter that they take a loss when you’re providing an essential human need?

This is why the government needs to get back into the business of social housing

But people aren’t building more apartments precisely because it would make the system less profitable?

You see the problem with your logic? It rests on the assumption that the private market needs to build except reality has actually shown the private market doesn’t ever want to build.

Then you circle back around and introduce some hypothetical actions that a private market hasn’t ever provided assuming by magic that they will.