CookieSheaButter t1_iu4cr2b wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:41 PM

Reply to comment by KaiDaiz in NYC chief housing officer: The era of YIMBY is here by ToffeeFever

Not all basement apartments are the same. For every dangerous or suboptimal one there are plenty perfectly good ones.

You’re going to add another floor to your single or multiple family home?

KaiDaiz t1_iu4cwy6 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM

Adding another floor is a lot easier vs making a basement legal, better housing, better qol for renter and more feasible.

Ask the owner and renter...which they prefer another legalized floor unit or basement unit. they will pick the first one

CookieSheaButter t1_iu51od5 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:32 PM

That’s not how any of this works. You can’t just build another floor. There’s zoning laws that are designed to cause a housing crisis.

KaiDaiz t1_iu556hv wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:55 PM

You mean the same zoning laws that don't allow the basement to be legally habitable? if you going to +1 unit to building and change the CO..it might as well be +1 additional floor vs the basement.