No policy is perfect. The same policies that allow for tenant/union involvement also allow for affluent homeowners to block things. In the end, it all depends on the strength of movements. Luckily, the NYC tenant movement has been racking up wins for the past 6 years.

The future Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will lead the most pro-tenant, pro-union, pro-social housing administration in a generation. This will allow them to build lots of social housing, faster.

This is not a YIMBY argument for "let the market solve it". It's about tipping the scales to make social housing development easier and overcoming affluent neighborhoods that block affordable housing.

Grappling with something like this now. I'm not clear if he's saying, once you have viable future in play, then do "material interests" make sense? Or never?

RU are supposed to be viable futures, and I do think material interests are at stake (albeit complex/contradictory and not deterministic)

The city failed this family, just as it's failing to hold bad landlords accountable.

Those days will end.

We will rebuild the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants—a longstanding tool of City Hall that has been defunded and deprioritized.

And it will finally have real teeth.

This is great! Looking forward to using it.

To your great points on scale and the changes over time and space, here's a brand new one looking at the past 120 years and the growth of macro-segregation. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

omg, I've banged my head so much with all that, this is amazing

As a card-carrying AFT member, this is a slippery slope to undermine our power as workers. And its going to be worse for students. The dream of these people have students do all their learning from AI chatbots, and turn us teachers into tech support at best.