Most folks react badly to the notion of huge housing towers rising nearby their homes. But the NY Daily News reports on some Williamsburg residents with a serious case of IMBY. “They’re calling on the city to revise a rezoning plan for Broadway Triangle in Williamsburg to include more low-income housing – in towers, if necessary,” they write. The site includes 31 acres, and the plan as it stands now includes 1,895 apartments, almost 50 percent of them affordable, in six- to 10-story buildings. At least one parcel has been awarded without a bid, and sounds like residents have other objections to the city’s vision for the area (some protested the rezoning plan back in November). Residents see the development as a way of “combating gentrification,” and providing housing for folks who might be displaced by luxury development elsewhere in the ‘hood. “We have suffered a class cleansing,” said one resident. “The working class is being removed from Williamsburg, Bushwick and beyond.”
Residents Call for More Low Income Housing Towers [NY Daily News]
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