It’s a bottleneck plain and simple.

Yes it’s one section. But it’s in the middle of the line. It will slow down the service crippling it’s usefulness.

It’s no secret the city is bleeding HNW and UHNW residents. Why not test it out?

My point is that lower rates are the revenue maximizing equilibrium. Don’t abolish it, but lower it such that more wealthy people become residents which is good for everyone because it increases tax revenue for services.

The absolute number of billionaire and millionaire residents goes up over time because of inflation.

If you downvoted this, I guess you don't like services and enjoy paying high rates.

Agree with you public shouldn't subsidize professional sports stadiums.

But NYC's tax rates are too high and driving away the wealthy, who generate the most tax revenue that pay for services. If all of the rich people domicile in FL, there won't be any money for services. You can't sock it to the rich with high state taxes when they have other cheaper alternatives. It's Econ 101. Dems need to stop being so emotional about this and make NYC tax rates competitive. It will grow the pie for everyone.

So asinine. New York City is one of the few places where the Laffer Curve would hold true because a lot of wealthy people want to live here. If the tax rates were more reasonable and competitive with other states (NJ, CT, MA), they would most definitely increase tax revenue to pay for services for everyone.

Tax cut would be nice.

Make displaying placards illegal with progressive fines:

$100; $250; $1,000 and impound.

It’s the equivalent of displaying a police badge for no official purpose. It’s basically impersonation of a police officer.

He was the best mayor this city ever had. He got hate because people reeling from the financial crisis misdirected their anger at him because he was a billionaire.

Caps basically already exists for half the market with rent regulation, which manipulates the remaining market rate apartments making them more unaffordable than they’d be without regulation. Plus regulation discourages landlords from improving their property worsening the condition of the regulated apartments for tenants.

Rent control was worse than the current rent regulation. It similarly doesn’t target subsidies for those on need just those lucky enough to sign the right lease. It’s worse because it allows tenants to pass along their lottery ticket to heirs who may not need a subsidy. Same problem for improving the properties as regulation.

Admittedly don’t know much about the Advantage program.

NYCHA administers the largest Section 8 program in the country. What do you mean restart it?

The NYC market is the most regulated market in the country. It’s not a free market. Half of rentals are under rent regulation which distorts the whole market and discourages owners making improvements.

We agree the current environment isn’t working. But it’s not from lack of regulation. It’s from too onerous regulation and zoning restrictions making it too difficult and too expensive to build. We need to build, build, build market rate apartments. This will increase supply putting downward pressure on prices including existing units. The only efficient way to fix the problem of lack of supply is to increase supply by building new units.

What’s your policy solution? The middle to upper middle class has already been pushed out. Rent regulation and affordable housing policies have only served the very rich who already own and the lucky who score a regulated apartment or housing lottery. Both of these policies have been disastrous for the middle. Please don’t advocate for more of the same.

Immigrants are transplants. Transplants are immigrants.

It’s not economical to build new developments at this price in NYC.

Look it’s a clear you want to rubber stamp all of these migrants to grant them asylum. That’s your right to have that political opinion. But you should know that’s a horrible policy. There’s billions in this world who live in or near poverty that would jump at the chance for us citizenship. It’s a horrible policy to just let anyone in that wants to because it’s unrealistic and unfair to the people who wait sometimes decades following the legal immigration route.

A lawyer that coaches a client to lie to an Immigration officer or an ALJ is subject to sanctions, ethics violations or disbarment.

If some human trafficker tells you to make up a story that’s not true and you use that story you don’t exactly have clean hands. There’s a whole cottage industry for asylum coaching. If that’s not fraud, what is?

Walking through the jungle sounds horrific. And the people who choose to do that must be in desperate circumstances. But the test for asylum isn’t being in desperate circumstances. It is actual or fear of persecution. It’s a high bar, but that is the law. It’s not statistically possible for this increase in asylum seekers to actually be victims of persecution.

Maybe so. But why would you increase funding for something, where there is known rampant fraud and create a feedback loop? One fix would be to increase disincentives to discourage blatant fraud, like fines or permanent bans. Then the people with real claims wouldn’t have to wait so long for adjudication.

This is a classic case of the majority ruining it for the few (the people with legitimate cases of religious or political persecution).

Not exactly. They made an asylum claim and there is a backlog because of the surge of fraudulent and ineligible claims. Asylum isn’t a social program for poor migrants. But people use it that way and many make false claims. The government can’t keep up with the volume.

Clickbait article. 2.4m pounds of 💩 sounds like a lot but is probably at most a 10-20 railcars full.