@DaddylunaXx He could, that’s often called Section 8, it’s a housing voucher. It’s up to landlords to accept it, though, and most won’t because the bureaucracy of it is broken.
Not that the tenants necessarily suck, but the gov then enforces all this paperwork, periodic inspections, etc.
@DaddylunaXx There’s almost no empty housing today and these policies would dramatically increase empty housing.
Housing in NYC is only really empty when prices have an artificial ceiling (rent control), and it’s not worth it to rent those out. This’ll just make that more common, really
@DaddylunaXx (2) Rent stabilized apartments are still built by private developers — it’s rent-controlled public housing that’s built by government; and we don’t have undeveloped land for that, and they don’t have the ability to build well anyways