New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new “block by block” initiative to tackle the city’s affordable housing crisis Tuesday morning.

The plan focuses on 400,000 affordable housing units, enhancing tenant protections and investing in public housing. Some 200,000 of those units will be new, rent-stabilized homes built over the next decade, as well as preserving and stabilizing an additional 200,000 homes.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    2 days ago

    Hard to criticize a policy that’s not even there. So far we know they want to build 200k units. How? Where? We know it’s “over the next decade” but mayor’s term is 4 years so it’s already assuming Mamdani will win govern at least 3 terms. A policy would be for example saying how they will make building housing more affordable to co-ops than it is for investment founds. And I’m replying because you’re combative stance is amusing. You expect me to draft valid policy for Mamdani while coming up with 0 valid arguments yourself. You just said that building housing units it easy and that I should be happy they will do it. You’re trying to talk like you’re some expert but you just sound like delusional fan. “Don’t you dare doubt Mamdani! I will fight you!”.

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      1 day ago

      Just because you don’t know the answer to these questions doesn’t mean there aren’t answers. You’re literally asking questions that are answered in the original article. Can you stop embarrassing yourself?

      Seriously. Do this. Write down your questions above on paper. Then, read the article and see how many questions you can answer from READING. If you do that and show me your homework I’ll fill in anything you missed or wasn’t answered. But you really need to show me some effort first. You’re acting like a child that can’t write a book report.

      Also, policy plans don’t suddenly explode and end when a Mayor leaves office. The city makes contracts and agreements that is has to uphold.

      This isn’t even about Mamdani at this point. This is me being amazed at how much effort you put into literally not understanding something.