> Is the lack of construction the fault of the people arriving No! > or of the people that have lived there a long time and have set the political agenda? Ha

> Is the lack of construction the fault of the people arriving No! > or of the people that have lived there a long time and have set the political agenda? Hardly less so! Why we don't build more is a complex issue with failures on all levels of government, and it's certainly not something New Yorkers specifically asked for. Rich NIMBYs complaining are damn hypocrites and the worse sure, but the type of New York Eric Adams (fuck him, to be clear) was ostencibly trying to appeal has no power over this stuff. Remember NYC is still a 1-party state shit show with way to many "veto points". It's structurally quite hard to do anything. I think the best way out is mix-rate public housing. Public housing that looses money because it's only the poorest is stupid and doomed to fail. Mix rate so it can pay for itself but no "extractive" profit is much more sustainable, i.e. can survive right-wing state and federal governments. I don't know anywhere that has enough housing in good dense locations with just the private sector.