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>anything to help people who already live there is what should happen. People who live here will benefit from this. NYC has a much more diverse candidate pool
by vdnkh 8y ago
>anything to help people who already live there is what should happen.
People who live here will benefit from this. NYC has a much more diverse candidate pool than SV - 47% of our tech workers are immigrants. Our schools are more diverse; there are more programs to teach underrepresented groups CS skills. They will benefit from this.
>gentrifying forces of a thousands of tech employees.
Can you explain how gentrification will actually play out, and how it's different than 25k jobs being created organically over the next decade?
>$1.5 billion in housing
Just because Amazon has been given an incentive doesn't mean that housing gets short sticked. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/about/press-releases/2018/07/mayor-de-blasio-announces-largest-year-for-affordable-housing-production.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/about/press-releases/2018/07/m...