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Miles Davis said:
shyt gonna be unaffordable, they need to stop masking affordable as accessible
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Financing doesn't work if you impose affordability requirements on office to residential conversions. All housing supply helps so :yeshrug:
 
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ADevilYouKhow said:
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Sunlight in your bedroom could become a luxury as cities debate allowing landlords to rent windowless rooms in former office buildings to alleviate the housing crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently argued that windowless bedrooms could be a solution to New York City's housing crisis.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently weighed in on the debate.

"Why can't we do a real examination of the rules that state every bedroom must have a window?" he asked during an interview on WNYC this month. "You don't need no window where you're sleeping, it should be dark!"
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By Emma G. Fitzsimmons
March 29, 2023

When Eric Adams ran for mayor, one of his key policy proposals was to create a better website for New Yorkers to access government services.

Concluding his 15th month in office, Mr. Adams has introduced the first phase of the website, which is called MyCity, calling the project “my baby” and “my dream.” Initially, it will allow people to apply for child-care assistance. Eventually, it will connect New Yorkers to additional programs.

“It’s user-friendly, and you can do it all, even while you are holding your child on your lap — you can register for child care,” Mr. Adams said Wednesday at a news conference at City Hall.

Mr. Adams, a Democrat, proposed the website as part of a “People’s Plan” that he volunteered as his one big idea during the mayor’s race. It included three components: MyCity, improved tax credits for poor New Yorkers, and free and low-cost child care for children under 3.

The mayor has pursued all three policies as part of his efforts to help poor New Yorkers, even as he has been criticized over cuts to other services like universal preschool and libraries. Mr. Adams had hoped to deliver the MyCity online portal during his first year as mayor, but in an end-of-year interview, he acknowledged that technology was an area where he had faced a learning curve.

On Wednesday, Mr. Adams said that he wanted to conduct user testing before introducing the website, and that he had been consumed with other challenges, including the pandemic and an influx of migrants from the southern border.

“We had a lot of stuff going on and we wanted to get it right,” he said.

The city planned to spend $4 million on the initial phase of the MyCity website, according to officials. Much of the work was outsourced to outside contractors, including the companies American Software and Innovative Business Concepts.

New Yorkers can use the new portal to apply for child care vouchers or for seats at free or low cost programs provided through the Education Department, and track the status of their application online. The vouchers can be used at hundreds of center-based and home-based providers across the city, or for payment to relatives, neighbors or friends approved to offer child care.

The portal does not offer information about a program’s performance and inspection record; a separate website, “Childcare Connect,” serves that purpose, allowing users to compare child care centers across the city.

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The mayor said that the website would screen residents to see if they are eligible for other government services like food stamps. A family of four is eligible for child care assistance, for instance, if the household has a monthly gross income of less than $6,939.

During the mayoral campaign, Mr. Adams said he wanted New Yorkers to use the online portal to access “a bank account” and “discounted food and health care,” according to campaign documents. Asked about the bank account idea, Mr. Adams said he believes in the concept of a “cyberwallet,” which would be used to access city-issued paychecks and public assistance.

“If someone is purchasing food, you can incentivize it to buy healthy food,” he said. “It allows us to see spending trends — how people are spending money, how to provide better services.”

Christina Cruz, a mother of five from Harlem who has a 3-year-old in child care, said at the news conference that the new website should ease the difficulties she encountered in trying to qualify for and find child care.

“I know firsthand how tedious the old system was,” she said. “The endless paperwork and having to dig up the same documents every time you needed to apply.”

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