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Do you have a source for the claim that it was intentionally to keep rents high? That's contrary to the goals of most city planners, and would require corrupt i
by eloff 6y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that it was intentionally to keep rents high? That's contrary to the goals of most city planners, and would require corrupt influences.
While it's not impossible, it is a conspiracy theory, and requires evidence.
- bregma 6y agoTammany Hall.
- code4tee 6y ago“Tammany Hall” is basically the answer to “why” for just about anything that happened in NYC prior to the 1960s :-)
- josephpmay 6y agoPrior to LaGuardia, sure, but they lost a lot of power in the Fusion days before they were gone
- 43t344efsg 6y ago>That's contrary to the goals of most city planners. Odd claim given the outcome of their policies.
- smallnamespace 6y agoYes, because city planners, like software engineers, always design their systems to an exact spec with no unintended consequences.
- toyg 6y ago> [keeping rents high would be] contrary to the goals of most city planners Today, maybe. The game was quite different 100+ years ago. We are talking about a pre-FDR, robber-baron era.