PSA: Council member Richardson Jordan in Harlam will have several challengers next year.

Yusef Salaam (of the 'Exonerated 5') will be one of the candidates in that race.

https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/yusef-salaam-exonerated-5-joins-harlem-city-council-race

Well KRJ did complain new housing will impact parking as one of her reasons to deny plan. Now she will get plenty of parking...just for trucks.

Is the article saying KRJ wanted the building to be 100% affordable at 30% the median income!?!? Gotta learn politics is the art of the compromise....perhaps the hard way

Wouldn't of matter if it was 100% affordable. She didn't want any more non blacks moving into her district. That was the main reason why she killed it. She preferred the least # of units built in a futile attempt to delay the changing demographics of her area.

She got exactly what she wanted. The goal was never more affordable housing, it was no housing at all.

The One45 proposal was incredibly generous when it came to affordable housing allocation, and seeing Richardson Jordan burn it all to the ground in some deluded NIMBY rage, to the detriment of her own community, was quite something.

That was just a pretext, a requirement that couldn't practicably be fulfilled. She doesn't want anyone who doesn't already live there moving to the neighborhood. It's classic nativism dressed up in new language.

> Yusef Salaam (of the 'Exonerated 5') will be one of the candidates in that race.

Damn that's quite a move for someone who's gone through that.

[citation needed]

Crybaby developer is gonna earn less in rent than is necessary to cover property taxes to own the libs lol

Hope those are the brand new EV semi and not diesel trucks.

> 100% affordable at 30% the median income

Insanity. That's called public housing. The city is welcome to build more of it if that is the best route to alleviating the housing crisis.

People like Kristin Richardson are misanthropes. They believe there is dignity in squalor, poverty and struggle. They do not believe in integration or community.

Of course, they wrap themselves in the labels that mean the opposite: they call themselves progressives and antiracists , even though their acts are designed to shittify their neighborhoods, destroy public education, and segregate the city.

If you asked a 1950s segregationist racist how to vote, he'd agree with her 99% of the time.

😂😂😂

Because new voters might not be as maleable as the ones who elected her. Can't risk the same old Harlem machine politicians losing power.

It's bizarre to witness nyc's transformation from "diverse global migrant city of the world" to "first in time first in right"

The developer owns a luxury real estate firm, so in all likelihood revenue from a truck dept in Harlem isn't even a rounding error in his overall portfolio.

On the flipside, a predominantly-Black Harlem neighborhood is going to have to deal with more noise, more pollution, and more traffic, to "own the rich".

And that isn't my assessment. It is what Harlem-based environmental justice group WE Act has said.

The One45 development would have included 917 units (1/2 affordable housing-- well above city minimum), retail spaces, and even a civil rights museum. The proposal also called for the dev. to finance and build a whole new playground.

Now the neighborhood doesn't get any of that, and instead gets a bunch of traffic and pollution.

Who's "owning" who here?

And if she gets primaried, the developer can just restart the proposal process again to get the lot re-zoned, and he could even do so by offering more favorable terms for himself (AKA not 1/2 affordable units).

Federal law prevents it

The museum would have been unnecessary. Schomburg is about 10 blocks south.

Who would have standing to actually prevent a city or state from doing this? Who would be materially and irreparably harmed by public housing that they could challenge it under federal law?