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Pool_Shark t1_itm5z8g wrote

Reply to comment by rewminatti in Queens Borough President Changes Position, Pens Op-Ed Supporting Large Astoria Development ‘Innovation QNS’ by CactusBoyScout

Never get why so many on this sub go to bad for shady real estate developers

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huebomont t1_itmct4l wrote

we go to bat for housing because there's a housing crisis

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Pool_Shark t1_itme4iy wrote

Surely their has to be a way to build housing without using shady real estate

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huebomont t1_itmnm2o wrote

no one has yet presented that option. the city can't/won't do it. the only people building housing in this city are real estate developers. change that fact first, THEN there can be credible advocacy against them.

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_itmqgfl wrote

It’s literally illegal under federal law to build any new public housing.

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Pool_Shark t1_itmqtcb wrote

Why?

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_itmr806 wrote

Because it was so deeply unpopular last time it was tried that a bipartisan effort produced the Faircloth Amendment banning any increase in public housing.

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