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Absurd Alhazred posted:Enjoy this lengthy interview with NYC's Deputy Mayor for Gentrification.. I mean, for Housing and Economic Development This idea that Amazon is going to be vacuuming up CUNY and Hunter grads to pay them six figures is such bald-faced bullshit. Mechafunkzilla has issued a correction as of 04:40 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Mechafunkzilla posted:This idea that Amazon is going to be vacuuming up CUNY and Hunter grads to pay them six figures is such bald-faced bullshit. Yeah, it's not like NYU, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard are anywhere nearby. Or that the aeroplane has been invented.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Is this the most he's ever been in the media or something? I heard complaints that he rarely gets interviewed.
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get that OUT of my face posted:there were twenty times more negative pieces on deblasio in a non-election year for him than there were for cuomo in a re-election campaign that wouldn't be allowed to happen in the vast majority of states, but tyrants and people who want to be tyrants have no skin I don't think this actually answers my question. Maybe I should have phrased it "gives interviews"? I would swear people were complaining about lack of access during the election, and here he is on all the shows all of a sudden to promote this Amazon deal.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:okay I think I'm misreading this one Vacancy decontrol is a mechanism that scumbag landlords use to take properties off of rent control. It incentivized landlords to neglect basic maintenance and care for their properties in hopes of driving tenants out, and encourages a host of harassment and intimidation tactics, as well as more above board strategies like tenant buyouts where large stacks of cash get thrown around. The end result of this is that there is less rent controlled property in the city every time vacancy decontrol is used. Preservation of existing affordable housing is just as, if not more, important than the creation of new affordable housing.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I don't think this actually answers my question. Maybe I should have phrased it "gives interviews"? I would swear people were complaining about lack of access during the election, and here he is on all the shows all of a sudden to promote this Amazon deal. Cuomo talks to the press when he wants to talk to the press, on his terms, not theirs. Thats the complaint. Its not that hes press-shy per se. But he demands control. There was a period in his first term where he would just call in to Brian Leherers show unannounced and demand a 20 minute interview slot. And generally, it was at a moment when he was enough in the news that they couldnt refuse.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Cuomo talks to the press when he wants to talk to the press, on his terms, not theirs. Thats the complaint. I see. Thanks!
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CaptainPsyko posted:Vacancy decontrol is a mechanism that scumbag landlords use to take properties off of rent control. It incentivized landlords to neglect basic maintenance and care for their properties in hopes of driving tenants out, and encourages a host of harassment and intimidation tactics, as well as more above board strategies like tenant buyouts where large stacks of cash get thrown around. The end result of this is that there is less rent controlled property in the city every time vacancy decontrol is used. Yeah 100% this. This is happening in my building right now. Any time a tenant vacates, management guts the apartment and replaces everything with the most overpriced bullshit they can find. For example: a bathroom sink with an electromagnetic hand sensor. Who needs that? A portion of every dollar they spend on 'improvements' gets applied as a rent increase on the unit in perpetuity. There's also no accountability in this. The owner can claim they spent $1,000 dollars on a new toilet seat, and increase the rent by $100/mo or whatever. There's no tenant to fight back, so the owners claim is unchallenged. In my building, they're now using 'major capital improvements' to increase the rent. It's similar to above, but applies to the entire building. They claim to have spent ~$700,000 replacing an elevator, a boiler, and repointing the front brickwork. Again, they are incentivized to spend (or claim to have spent) as much as possible, because the cost is entirely passed on to tenants. Even after tenants have paid for these improvements (basic maintenance really), their rent is permanently increased. I'm more pissed off about it than usual. The owner risks nothing. They're guaranteed to be fully paid back by law, and I'm sure they get a loan for the up front costs. So the end result is a bank gets paid, the owner gets paid, tenants get hosed.
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https://twitter.com/JimmyVielkind/status/1064899274377445377 He mad.
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he wants to say "fake news" so badly I can smell it
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Mechafunkzilla posted:This idea that Amazon is going to be vacuuming up CUNY and Hunter grads to pay them six figures is such bald-faced bullshit. It's the same dumbass arguement you see sports use to justify building a multi-billion dollar new stadium and also demanding tax write-offs at the same time just like what Amazon is doing.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Vacancy decontrol is a mechanism that scumbag landlords use to take properties off of rent control. It incentivized landlords to neglect basic maintenance and care for their properties in hopes of driving tenants out, and encourages a host of harassment and intimidation tactics, as well as more above board strategies like tenant buyouts where large stacks of cash get thrown around. The end result of this is that there is less rent controlled property in the city every time vacancy decontrol is used. i was on rent control and there was a leak in the bathroom one day. i come home and my tile floor is just gone, nobody told me anything. they replaced it with an uneven hack job that collected water in pools and gave me a sink out of the dumpster with big chunks missing from the basin. they were so happy i left. i saw the super at the coffee shop and he said now the apartment is renting for double after renovations.
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They spelled "belie" wrong holy poo poo
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https://twitter.com/gracerauh/status/1064967092766687233 Everything is coming up shitheads.
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Nov 21, 2018 02:34
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Double posting because news: https://twitter.com/NoIDCNY/status/1065488079031595008 I wasn't expecting the IDC to literally start dying off.
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Nov 22, 2018 07:21
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holy poo poo!
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lol gently caress him, sold out his constituents for 12.5k a year
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 They might want to change their background. Then again, they might not. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Double posting because news:
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
Update: they changed the background. Lots of replies to this tweet blaming them for his death. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Double posting because news: I said Jose Peralta Retire Bitch not Jose Peralta Die Bitch
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CaptainPsyko posted:I said Jose Peralta Retire Bitch not Jose Peralta Die Bitch It's criminal to actually apply any pressure on a politician or run against them, how dare you!
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Ocasio please primary Schumer
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Lawman 0 posted:Ocasio please primary Schumer
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Finally a story out, not clear what it was yet, wife says it started out with what looked like an ear infection. They're going to do an autopsy to confirm. hosed up that NoIDC is now resorting to biological weapons.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Double posting because news: a very hearty lmao sorry not sorry
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Gunshow Poophole posted:a very hearty lmao sorry not sorry That's a bit gauche. Just because his politics were poo poo doesn't mean he deserves to die so young. Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/pearlsNY/status/1065009038931501056  They're scared.
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a few days old but this does not make me feel great about voting for DSA to endorse him https://twitter.com/andrewhgross/status/1064686529174478848?s=21
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Barry Convex posted:a few days old but this does not make me feel great about voting for DSA to endorse him https://twitter.com/JumaaneWilliams/status/1065443021188157441 https://twitter.com/swoleshevik/status/1065484829490376709 https://twitter.com/JumaaneWilliams/status/1065573433357029382
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this isn't talked about a lot because it's a touchy subject and rightfully so, but it needs to be said: the big unions in NY are useless as hell because they're more concerned about currying favor with incumbent politics- both Democrat and Republican- instead of expanding the labor fight and lending their muscle to a wide variety of issues. case in point: 32BJ and the head of the Building and Construction Trades Council both support Amazon HQ2 move. at the same time, 32BJ and CWA want to have a statewide public election financing system, so they're not all bad, but they should be a lot better
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get that OUT of my face posted:this isn't talked about a lot because it's a touchy subject and rightfully so, but it needs to be said: the big unions in NY are useless as hell because they're more concerned about currying favor with incumbent politics- both Democrat and Republican- instead of expanding the labor fight and lending their muscle to a wide variety of issues. case in point: 32BJ and the head of the Building and Construction Trades Council both support Amazon HQ2 move. at the same time, 32BJ and CWA want to have a statewide public election financing system, so they're not all bad, but they should be a lot better This might be a relevant cross-post here, then: Absurd Alhazred posted:Maybe if big unions want to add more locals, they should stop making sweetheart deals with employers:After UAWs betrayal, Graduate Workers must vote no tl;dr UAW cut a deal with Columbia behind the student organizers` backs which included a no-strike clause.
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how do we get rid of cy vance just hope he dies?
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i was hoping he'd get caught criming
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They're also going for the NY Health Act.
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lessthankyle posted:They're also going for the NY Health Act. ugh that is the dumbest poo poo ever, do they not realize that if you wiped out the cost of employer provided health insurance they could immediately go to bargain for that money (or at least a huge chunk of it) as wage increases, without any detriment to their members? I swear to loving god if my union comes out against this I am going to spend every single day screaming at my union president about what a dumb useless gently caress he is.
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GalacticAcid posted:how do we get rid of cy vance
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We can pray he gets caught up in this revisiting of the Epstein cases.
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Double-posting for bump: https://twitter.com/NY1/status/1069753149362180097 How is this legal?
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