Norman Oder, Author at City Limits

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Industry City’s ‘Plan for 20,000 Jobs’ included jobs that already exist, jobs that it expected tenant companies to generate, and jobs that murky projections said would be spurred off site.

ByNorman Oder 12 minRead time

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Apr 2019

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes

From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known…

ByNorman Oder 18 minRead time

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Sep 2018

Government In Depth Investigations

Leecia Eve: From Public Service to the Private Sector, and Back?

Part 1 in our series on the Democratic candidates for attorney general looks at Leecia Eve. Daughter of a prominent pol, and a one-time aide to Biden, Clinton and Cuomo,…

ByNorman Oder 20 minRead time

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May 2018

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

De Blasio Emails Shed Light on how ‘Affordable Housing’ is Packaged for the Press

The emails show a developer scripting quotes from a grateful new tenant; a mayoral aide transforming a corporate press release into a governmental statement; and a lack of support from…

ByNorman Oder 14 minRead time

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Oct 2017

Housing and Homelessness

With 421-a Maneuver, Pacific Park Developer Could Save Buyers $50 Million More in Taxes

To sell 550 Vanderbilt luxury condos, they’d piggyback onto affordable building well down the block.

ByNorman Oder 17 minRead time

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

The Real Math of An Affordable Housing Lottery: Huge Disconnect Between Need and Allotment

A close look at those who applied for spots in one Pacific Park building reveals a vast gap between which income groups expressed need and what income levels the apartments…

ByNorman Oder 18 minRead time

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Mar 2017

Uncategorized

CityViews: Emerging Kushner Deal Suggests What’s Wrong With U.S. Investor Visa Program

The EB-5 program, which one New York real estate banker likened to “legalized crack cocaine,” demands reform. But it looks the Trump administration might expand rather than curtail it.

ByNorman Oder 15 minRead time

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Jul 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Fuzzy Plans for New Towers at Key Pacific Park Site

Developers of the area formerly known as Atlantic Yards have offered few specifics about their plans for Site 5, which could involve a soaring tower and residential space that might…

ByNorman Oder 17 minRead time

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Mar 2016

Uncategorized

CityViews: Distorting Downtown Brooklyn’s Past Can Only Obscure Its Future

Could a ‘model’ Central Business District have been created by building luxury housing? Only if we listen to the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.

ByNorman Oder 9 minRead time

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Feb 2016

Uncategorized

CityViews:
How Law Enforcement Solutions Backfire on the Homeless

Sleeping on the train, putting feet up, and even public urination can’t be solved (only) by law enforcement.

ByNorman Oder 6 minRead time

Norman Oder

Opinion: Stop Echoing Industry City’s Bogus Math on Jobs

Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes

Leecia Eve: From Public Service to the Private Sector, and Back?

De Blasio Emails Shed Light on how ‘Affordable Housing’ is Packaged for the Press

With 421-a Maneuver, Pacific Park Developer Could Save Buyers $50 Million More in Taxes

The Real Math of An Affordable Housing Lottery: Huge Disconnect Between Need and Allotment

CityViews: Emerging Kushner Deal Suggests What’s Wrong With U.S. Investor Visa Program

Fuzzy Plans for New Towers at Key Pacific Park Site

CityViews: Distorting Downtown Brooklyn’s Past Can Only Obscure Its Future

CityViews:
How Law Enforcement Solutions Backfire on the Homeless

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