The notion that a city government might provide a useful service to its residents sure gives a lot of people the heebie jeebies.
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Профиль VivelyOld-school community organizer. I helped vanquish a few slumlords and helped a few tenants take over their buildings. A sentence a day, on a good day.
Reading through this thread about grocery shopping in the poor neighborhoods of New York City is exactly like reading through a thread of people commenting about a movie they've never seen.
Will StancilPolitics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.
One reason that Rent Stabilization protections should be extended to all tenants is that it prohibits landlords from refusing to renew leases to tenants who have attempted to assert their rights. If you're not rent stabilized, that type of retaliation is perfectly legal.
Mayor Zohran Kwame MamdaniThe NYC EDC has always believed that the road to economic development passed through plutocrats' pockets, and that resulted in economic disasters like Hudson Yards. If Lina Khan can change that, more power to her.
Mamdani appoints antitrust crusader Lina Khan as chair of NYC economic development agencyAs the EDC's chair, Khan will be able to scrutinize an agency that has been criticized over the years for being too cozy with business interests.gothamist.com