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I mean they’re going to replace it with a much larger building. What are you complaining about exactly?
by CPLX 3y ago
I mean they’re going to replace it with a much larger building. What are you complaining about exactly?
- ceejayoz 3y agoFew of the "much larger building"s going up recently in NYC are high-density, affordable living space.
- epistasis 3y agoFew new cars are highly affordable. We need a continuous supply of new housing, or rebuilding, and in particular NYC should always be building up up up. There are three ways to deal with shortages: waiting lists, market pricing out the lowest incomes, and building enough new housing to let everyone who wants to live there live their. Only the last option, build build build, is the least bit fair. Every other option is exclusionary and destructive to community.
- CPLX 3y agoLiterally no part of the building being discussed has ever contained housing for NYC residents.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThe post upthread proposed changing that, yes?
- rayiner 3y agoWhy do we need affordable living space in NYC? You know what’s got affordable housing: Iowa.
- ceejayoz 3y agoRandian fantasies aside, cities rely on quite a bit of low-paid labor. Those folks tend to have to live somewhere.
- anigbrowl 3y agoYou've really internalized the 'I've got mine, FU' trope over time.
- rayiner 3y agoNot at all. I just have no sympathy for the likes of NYC. Turning old hotels into below-market housing so that a service class of workers can serve Wall Street seems dystopian to me. Seems like Qatar, not America.