Next up: stairs for rich people, trampolines for everyone else.
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If you’re looking for affordable housing in the United States, it would be a good start to forget that New York City even exists, especially in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as more and more neighborhoods undergo gentrification and low-income families get dumped further into terrible neighborhoods or forced out of the city altogether so NYU students can live in a windowless room in Bushwick for $900 a month. But luckily for the Job Creators, New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development and some, uh, charitable developers have hatched a plan to make it so you won’t have to look at those troublemaking poors ever again. As Gawker’s Andy Cush reports, Extell Development Company’s new building at 40 Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side, is looking to take even more of a Big Apple-sized dump on anyone who’s looking to live in Manhattan for less than the cost of a medium-sized island:
The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved Extell’s Inclusionary Housing Program application for the 33-story tower this week, the New York Post reports. The status grants Extell the aforementioned tax breaks and the right to construct a larger building than would ordinarily be allowed. According to the Daily Mail, affordable housing tenants will enter through a door situated on a “back alley.”
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And if that’s not enough to make you buy a baby grand piano to celebrate, here’s a quote from another developer who’s a proponent of the “poor door”, who stops just short of saying affordable housing tenants should be required to feed him grapes while he sits naked in a hot tub.
“No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations,” said David Von Spreckelsen, senior vice president at Toll Brothers. “So now you have politicians talking about that, saying how horrible those back doors are. I think it’s unfair to expect very high-income homeowners who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low-income renters, who are very fortunate to live in a new building in a great neighborhood.
Fantastic. Thanks, David. Now you’ll never have to look at the welfare queen in 4E who chose to make less than six figures again, the way our Founding Fathers intended.
H/T to Gawker and Andy Cush.
Photo by Timothy Krause/Flickr
I checked and these are “condo’s” that some are in the million dollar price range. I read a comment from another site which puts this into perspective. “Are you kidding me? If I had a family, we’d live in a safer neighborhood, and they’d be placed into better schools. I don’t really see this anymore demeaning than first class seats on an airline, or what have you” Which reminds me, all the flights I’ve ever been on, first class was always closed off by a drape. Ummmm, maybe that’s something that will surface as being wrong as well.
You mean someone paying $800 per mo won’t receive the same benefits as someone paying $5000 per mo? How unfair! I think…
By the way- gotta love the dip advocating murder. If that’s not in violation of the comment policy than I don’t know what would be.
I wish they would have actually identifies the building because I would be curious as to how the building is designed. I tend to think that they lobby for the subsidized housing is anything like a door off a loading dock.