I’m prioritizing Bl**sky for the time being because I dislike how much blatant bigotry and right-wing bs is now piped into my timeline; if you want to follow me there, I’m [email protected]
If you are a liberal, you should leave this site, especially after last night. Media environments are clearly the only things that matter and being here is only supporting El*n’s vision for the country
@bobbyfijan@saltiecashew It seems like you’ve voted mostly on local issues, which is your right, I guess, but I don’t understand why you’d expect Trump would do anything to improve urban education or quality of life, and esp. when he presents a clear threat to American institutions and the rule of law
@mattyglesias Fwiw I'm inclined to give @bradlander more credit for voting through the entire rezoning of Gowanus than Zellnor for supporting a single private rezoning
@hslatkin@nick_garber@GCPBID So strange considering how NYCHA needs more options rather than fewer; I wonder who was pushing for that at the council level
@aarmlovi There are still quirks to this; like is Northside Williamsburg fully gentrified as compared to the East Village? (I agree with your take writ large tho)
@berkie1 I’m kinda surprised that Boston would consider this before allowing happy hour or bars to stay open after 1am—is this just an area where they aren’t hemmed in by state law?
@RossBarkan The funny thing is that it’d probably be something like a version of good cause or the CPI+ anti-gouging laws passed in CA and OR, applied when the vacancy rate drops below 5%
👇NYS Good Cause Eviction's proposed rent cap of *1.5xCPI* is looser than NYC rent stabilization but tight enough to bind routine increases in modern NYC
But comprehensive citywide TOD rezoning could probably keep market rents under that threshold for a long time