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Opinion: New York’s Climate Crisis is a Housing Crisis

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  • Martha Danziger
    Posted October 30, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    The article on housing shortage by Columbia students misstates the problem.
    The issue is real and the City and State needs to get better control of market rate rent for residential and commercial properties to solve the most pressing problems.
    Instead of focusing on solutions, the students warned about shortages, e.g., 60,000 ‘New Yorkers’ in shelters, programs to help single family homes mostly benefit white families, etc.
    The shelters are not filled with New Yorkers ever since the city pols decided to make it a sanctuary city. Providing temp shelter for indigenous NYers would have been doable but not for every person or family that comes to town. That program serves mostly non whites. The new hotel room program for illegals(not refugees which is legal sratus granted by US gov’after applying, vetting and connecting to sponsor. Mexican drug and childtrafficking cartels are not sponsors)also serves overwhelmingly non whites but that was ignored by students.
    The single family home program uses real estate tax dollars paid by homeowners to restore communities of all skin tone.
    Turning this into racial issue is predictable and not helpful.
    Is it OK with these students that whites lose their homes which can destroy historic communities?
    The housing shortage issue for almost all incomes is important enough without salting the wound with racism.

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