they can't buy what someone isn't selling. just like white people back in the day felt it was in their community's (err racial) interest to not sell to black people, these black homeowners need to think about their community and not sell to investors who are just looking for renters.
working class white people got plowed under too when developers and bureaucrats wanted the property.
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Criticism
Moses's critics claim that he preferred automobiles to people. They point out that he displaced hundreds of thousands of residents in New York City, destroying traditional neighborhoods by building expressways through them. That contributed to the ruin of the
South Bronx and the
amusement parks of
Coney Island, caused the departure of the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the
New York Giants Major League baseball teams, and precipitated the decline of public transport due to
disinvestment and neglect.
[5] His building of expressways hindered the
proposed expansion of the New York City Subway from the 1930s well into the 1960s, because the parkways and expressways that were built served, at least to some extent, the purpose of the planned subway lines; the 1968
Program for Action, which was never completed, was hoped to counter this.
[5] Some claim he precluded the use of public transit that would have allowed non-car-owners to enjoy the elaborate recreation facilities he built, but close associates of Moses claimed that they could keep
African Americans from using pools in
whiteneighborhoods by making the water too cold.
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He was also criticized in "The Power Broker" for starting large projects well beyond funding approved by the New York State legislature with the knowledge they would eventually pay for the rest to avoid looking like they didn't review the project properly (a tactic known as
fait accompli) and for using political power to benefit cronies including a case where he secretly shifted the Northern State Parkway large distances to avoid impinging on the estates of the rich, while telling owners of the family farms who lost land (and sometimes their livelihood) that it was based on "engineering considerations."
[5] In that book, other criticisms included that Moses lied about officials that opposed him to get them removed, for example by calling them communists during the
Red Scare and that he fought against schools and other public needs in favor of his preference for parks.
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