senteroa t1_j5cphme wrote
Reply to comment by mp90 in New York State Joins the YIMBY Fray by ken81987
If you want to fix it up for use by the current occupants, then talk about that. But if you want to just displace the tenants & make the building unaffordable to everybody, then just own up to the fact that you're a gentrifier.
ken81987 OP t1_j5fjjhp wrote
There is truth in your comment, that anyone currently renting at below market rate (which is most new yorkers. I grew up in a $700 rent stabilized apartment on 17th st. Some of my family is still rent stabilized), if forced to move out, will be displaced since they can't afford market rents. So it is their interest to avoid change.
This is the quagmire that our zoning and development laws, of limiting the ability for buildings to be easily built, have gotten us into. NYC has had a housing crisis for two decades, and it seems to only get attention now because it has become a nationwide issue. But ultimately the underlying issue of everything, is that we just absolutely need more housing to be built. There is no way to avoid it.
yoshimipinkrobot t1_j5gd520 wrote
They block housing on lots where there is no housing too. Where no one is getting displaced
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