{"id":946,"date":"2021-01-22T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.mtopp.org\/?p=946"},"modified":"2021-01-22T01:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T01:01:49","slug":"the-dream-and-reality-of-luxury-affordable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/22\/the-dream-and-reality-of-luxury-affordable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream and Reality of Luxury\/Affordable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Reality of the Luxury\/Affordable Dream!<\/h5>

The main thrust of Eric Adams and Community Board 9 for this development is the luxury plus affordable <\/strong>component. We are currently seeing the results <\/strong>of this great plan<\/strong>:<\/p>

  1. Getting the middle<\/strong>, moderate<\/strong> and low income people to pay for<\/strong> the building of luxury <\/strong>development for the rich<\/strong>. (626 Flatbush Ave).<\/li>
  2. The creation of Jim Crow<\/strong> and other separatist practice<\/strong>s, i.e. approval<\/strong> by the City for \u201cpoor door<\/strong>\u201d entrance.
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  3. Affordable that is not affordable<\/a><\/strong> to the community<\/strong> it is being built in.

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  4. And just new on the scene: Fighting<\/strong> the affordable<\/strong> component.\u00a0 For example, in Brooklyn Bridge Park there was a luxury\/affordable deal.\u00a0 The first buildings to go up are the luxury ones, and now the new residents,<\/strong> don\u2019t want<\/strong> the moderate<\/strong> income units to be built, <\/strong>despite the fact they are there because of this deal!

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  5. The developers can\u2019t find poor<\/strong> people to fill up their vacancy of affordable<\/strong> units.\u00a0 66 Rockwell luxury high rise developers stated the people in the neighborhood make too much money<\/strong> despite the fact they are 2 blocks<\/strong> away from the Farragut projects<\/strong>! Our Time Press, August 14-20 2014 pg. 3

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  6. According to Our Time Press, The Association for Neighborhood and Housing development have sited another way not to select residents<\/strong> for the affordable units is \u201c800 credit score<\/strong>\u201d requirements.<\/li><\/ol>

    Now let\u2019s move all that knowledge to Empire Blvd.. One aspect of the affordable\/luxury agreement is that the developers<\/strong> can build separate<\/strong> buildings as long as there is affordable development. Most developers can\u2019t <\/strong>do this because of the limited opportunity<\/strong> to purchase multiple land masses but in the case of Empire Blvd.<\/strong>, it is possible<\/strong>.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Fat Albert\u2019s<\/strong> is one piece of land, which will get those magnificent views<\/strong> of the park, tower over everything else and be an eye sore decades to come and the gas station<\/strong> on Rogers Ave<\/strong> and Empire is the other.<\/p>

    The Developer builds the Fat Albert\u2019s building<\/strong> for the Rich<\/strong> and the gas station<\/strong> two blocks away for the moderate income<\/strong>. In fact, why not make all the buildings<\/strong> that are further<\/strong> from the park <\/strong>for the moderate and low income?<\/p>

    That concept fits perfectly<\/strong> with the mind-set<\/strong> of the Developers.<\/strong> Didn’t the developer who created the \u201cpoor door\u201d, back entrance state\u2026\u00a0 \u201cNo one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations<\/strong>\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2699325\/NYC-gives-green-light-building-apartments-poor-door-tenants-living-affordable-housing.html#ixzz3ANqusH7a<\/a><\/p>

    That is the danger<\/strong>!\u00a0 A real one.\u00a0 Separation<\/strong> not based upon race any longer but class. And it is already happening! Or even better, now that they are here, the wealthier<\/strong> group, no longer wants<\/strong> the affordable component at all so they go to the Community Board and their elected officials and demand<\/strong> that this component of the agreemen<\/strong>t be altered.\u00a0 Is that possible? Anything is possible<\/strong>!\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t Brooklyn Heights Park wouldn\u2019t be fighting!<\/p>

    The other fear<\/strong> that is real<\/strong> is that by the time these affordable<\/strong> units are built, the complete character and social\/economic<\/strong> demographics of the neighborhood would have changed,<\/strong> as the city watches<\/strong> these landlords, evict <\/strong>tenants, allow DHCR<\/strong> to give a blind side<\/strong> view to the illegal MCI’s <\/strong>and other violations.<\/strong>\u00a0 Thus they will say, we can\u2019t find<\/strong> any poor<\/strong> or moderate income people and they probably won\u2019t because we won\u2019t<\/strong> be here!<\/strong><\/p>

    There are so many ills being<\/strong> created with the plan<\/strong>, and many fights<\/strong> both within the community and on local, state and federal levels to address these ills<\/strong>, as the reality<\/strong> of this so call plan to create affordable housing<\/strong> comes to light.<\/strong> Just a developer\u2019s dream<\/strong>, to use tax payer\u2019s money<\/strong> to build luxury housing<\/strong> for the rich<\/strong>! And at the same time<\/strong> remove <\/strong>a large section of the poor and moderate<\/strong> income families out!<\/strong><\/p>

    No Residential On Empire Blvd.!<\/strong><\/p>

    Contextualize Empire Blvd.!<\/strong><\/p>

    Preserve our Affordable Community!<\/strong><\/p>

    No More Luxury Development in Our Community!<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Reality of the Luxury\/Affordable Dream! The main thrust of Eric Adams and Community Board 9 for this development is the luxury plus affordable component. We are currently seeing the results of this great plan: Getting the middle, moderate and low income people to pay for the building of luxury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fight-against-rezoning","category-knowledge-is-power"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}