EDITORIAL: Bill’s senior moment: De Blasio balks on a commitment made to elderly public housing residents
Don't take our word for it. The Council's press release touted "
The elegant idea is to create small new apartments for elderly NYCHA residents -- freeing up the larger units where thousands, now empty-nesters, still live, and starting to dent the city's 200,000-plus wait list for public housing. Sounding very much like himself, de Blasio appeared at a rally outside
Fast forward. Last month, meeting with some of the advocates who had helped broker the commitment, the mayor's staff said it was pursuing six sites that would altogether accommodate between 525 and 855 apartments for seniors. Divide
The normal economics of building, in which city dollars leverage over revenue, say that when land is free, it should take between
What happened here?
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