Is this the future of New York public housing?

[Fmju]

Happening in DC right now

Except they kickin all the nikkas out first

 

[newworldafro]

Happening in DC right now

Except they kickin all the nikkas out first

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Not everytime, there are some examples in Southeast part of city of old projects or super low income buildings being transfored like the examples up here ......but yeah...it is happening .....

This is a new project near Congress Heights Metro station/neighborhood in Southeast ..... it wasn't a lot happening on this lot......but just shows you the type of investment that's even happening in the "deep in the hood"

Congress Heights Could Get New Office/Living Space - Coming Attractions - Curbed DC

Ward 8 is not currently the center of many D.C. development projects, but this proposed office and residential space next to the Congress Heights Metro Station might help to spur growth in the area. These 90 foot buildings proposed by 5914 Square (a partnership between CityPartners and Sanford Capital) would include a 236,000-square-foot office building and a residential building of up to 215 apartments. Both buildings would include retail space on the ground floor and a plaza at the entrance to the metro station. Sanford, one half of the 5914 Square development team, is known for having a lot of properties that look like tiny brick boxes, so this rendering looks like a departure from that.

 

[theworldismine13]

What are your thoughts on Thatchers "Right to Buy" scheme wherein public housing was sold to poor tenants at a subsidize price?

"Mr. Davies, 70, bought the small flat for a mere £3,000 – less than the price of a car – shortly after Lady Thatcher unveiled her “Right to Buy” scheme for public-housing tenants in 1980. In 2000, he sold the flat for £60,000 and wishes he had hung on, because property prices have soared since then. “Still, it was a great investment,” he says.
Thatcher

Think that might work in the hood? Albeit tweaked a bit(like forbidden them from selling the property for two decades etc.).

Yeah that sounds good, or the other option is to put a time limit on how long you can stay, like. 5 years or something

property ownership is the basic foundation of the American economy and capitalism, so when you see the ecosystem that develops around housing projects what you are seeing is an ecosystem designed for permenant poverty and no wealth creation

it's fundemantally unamerican for the government to own your home

 

[How Sway?]

tear em down. HIgh rise projects = failure

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1MFSd_UCI"]60 minutes North Town Village - Cabrini Green (Holsten Real Estate Development) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Humble (Not) Mike Tyson]

yeah, it never matters what it looks like at first as long as the dual apathies that allow them to crumble continue to exist

That's a new one.