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17 Units Here. 8,555 There. See Where NYC Builds Its Affordable Housing

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  • Gisele Santana
    Posted May 19, 2022 at 1:15 pm

    Queens Especially Western Queens doesn’t give a damn about working families I have been asking elected politicians directly about creating real affordable housing I even provided my salary to some a reference , and what did they do ? Let me tell you, out of three lotteries I only qualify for one. The biggest slap in the face is the latest lottery that’s coming directly to my neighborhood in Jackson Heights they want me to and 67,000 minimum. The elected officials in Queens just don’t give a damn but they want you to canvas and vote for them it’s absolutely ridiculous. I received a phone call to do paid canvassing for someone running for office. I told the person to bubble up to her superior, why would I Canvas for a politician that doesn’t even care or makes no effort for me to stay in the neighborhood they want to canvass in? How much sense does that make you want me to do something for you but you can’t do anything for me?

  • Lisa
    Posted May 20, 2022 at 8:13 am

    Guess what a lot of people specially dominican people getting housing lying to the goverment and buying tje lease to the owner of the previews aparment they go live there and they change the name on the lease to transfer to the person formoney and the person is npt living in this country not even 5 years ahd a lot of th doing this with out wprking and paying taxes to the goverment they jus come here to get everythin from the goverment free with out working hard in this country, what a shame

  • Jenny Dubnau
    Posted February 22, 2024 at 10:19 am

    “The analysis does not include affordability levels—most apartments built with the 421a tax exemption are priced for people earning well over the city average…”

    The above fact is crucial: as we know, most of the apts that the City calls “affordable” include $1500 studios and $2500 1-bedrooms. Those apartments might be affordable to high earners, but not to most of us: the market rate is so insanely high that most New Yorkers are priced out of even the “affordable” units. We need deep affordability, and for-profit developers are simply never going to produce more than a sprinkling. We must expand and tighten rent regulations, and there’s no way around it: massive public subsidies must be committed to building new housing that is decommodified. When you hear people describe the City of Yes as a means to address segregation, or to solve the affordability crisis, don’t believe a word of it.

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