Adi Talwar
Looking South down 3rd Avenue from NYCHA Wickoff Gardens
‘Upon close examination, the speaker’s proposal falls short and leaves the door wide open for the continuation of City Planning’s top-down, developer-driven rezonings by offering them a new shroud of legitimacy: a comprehensive plan engineered by city officials that fast-tracks rezonings.’
‘This problem didn’t start with the current mayor but it’s not ending either. Now is the time to stop zoning without planning and frankly address racialized displacement.’
The plan to build market-rate buildings at public housing sites doesn’t save NYCHA, it threatens it. There’s a better way, this writer argues.
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