“Currently in Astoria, Queens, Council member Julie Won and allied community activists are resisting “Innovation QNS,” a massive, $2 billion development that would bring 2,845 new apartments to the area, citing concerns about the area’s rapid gentrification and the need for a greater percentage of affordable units. Over 1,000 of those apartments would be classified as affordable for the area.”

Well Ms. Won, maybe your area wouldn’t be “gentrifying” so quickly if people weren’t clamoring to find housing because politicians like you block every development. Were I in charge, I would gather up 1,000 low income or working class families and make her explain to each of them individually that their presence in apartments they could afford would be “gentrification”.

NYC needs to cut this bullshit of letting perfect be the enemy of good, because until that happens, the housing crisis is going to continue to get worse