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With any luck, millennials won't leave the city like their predecessors. If they stay long enough, they'll grow frustrated, and get active within city governme

With any luck, millennials won't leave the city like their predecessors. If they stay long enough, they'll grow frustrated, and get active within city government. If they have the numbers, and the organization, we COULD see changes to restrictive housing policies in places like SF and NY. Lots of ifs. I'm hopeful.

Decade 10y ago
http://www.sfyimby.org/ http://www.sfyimby.org/ For the first time, I’m also hopeful.
L_Rahman 10y ago
You should be! I'm one of those millennials. I moved to the East Village last year and plan to attend to my first Community Board meeting early next month. From a quick glance of what the board did in January 2017: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/html/calendar/calendar.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/html/calendar/calendar.shtml The focus was mostly on quality of life for existing residents - liquor license approvals, art installations and cultural activities. These are important things and people should care about them, but it's striking that those groups had meetings while the following didn't: - Transportation and Public Safety - Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing - Public Housing and Section 8 Housing I'm going to spend the next couple of months attending these meetings to figure out how it all works. I should caveat however that I'm atypical in this attitude. Because I spent the entirety of my childhood in dense urban environments - Dhaka and New York - I'm attached to city living. Most of my millennial friends are planning to take make the suburban trek.
- vdnkh 10y ago
  I moved to Kip's Bay in May and thanks for this comment - I'm going to attend a meeting too.
deathanatos 10y ago
> get active within city government. The problem with this is that you only have an indirect say in the government; one can't vote if one is priced out of the city.

Decade 10y ago

http://www.sfyimby.org/ http://www.sfyimby.org/ For the first time, I’m also hopeful.

L_Rahman 10y ago

You should be! I'm one of those millennials. I moved to the East Village last year and plan to attend to my first Community Board meeting early next month. From a quick glance of what the board did in January 2017: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/html/calendar/calendar.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/html/calendar/calendar.shtml The focus was mostly on quality of life for existing residents - liquor license approvals, art installations and cultural activities. These are important things and people should care about them, but it's striking that those groups had meetings while the following didn't: - Transportation and Public Safety - Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing - Public Housing and Section 8 Housing I'm going to spend the next couple of months attending these meetings to figure out how it all works. I should caveat however that I'm atypical in this attitude. Because I spent the entirety of my childhood in dense urban environments - Dhaka and New York - I'm attached to city living. Most of my millennial friends are planning to take make the suburban trek.

vdnkh 10y ago
I moved to Kip's Bay in May and thanks for this comment - I'm going to attend a meeting too.

deathanatos 10y ago

> get active within city government. The problem with this is that you only have an indirect say in the government; one can't vote if one is priced out of the city.