«We have taken hundreds of thousands
of affordable units off the rent rolls and made them into luxury housing,» said Silver.
Not exact matches
«We also must tell Albany that they have got to stop the hemorrhaging
of affordable housing
units in New York State and we have to cut
off the spigot
of those who just go to Albany and serve the developer
unit and then come back home and talk about the crisis that's been going on,» she said.
The on - topic and
off - topic questions in the Q&A portion
of the press conference included: the project status when de Blasio took office and how his approach to
affordable housing differs from Mayor Bloomberg, whether there are any differences in Phase I
of the project as being initiated now versus as approved by the Bloomberg administration, what he sees as a realistic percentage
of units being «
affordable» in projects located closer to or in Manhattan, whether he counts this project towards his goal
of 200,000
affordable units, the NYPD officer recently arrested in India, the status
of speed camera approvals from Albany, the FOIL delays and responses which did not produce any emails or documents in the Findlayter case, the NYPD / FDNY hockey brawl, Queens Library President Thomas Galante and the newly elected leadership
of NYSUT (the state teachers union).
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