Some Worry Building Affordable Means Building Big and Tall
As we approach the May 1 deadline for Mayor de Blasio to present his plan for 200,000 units of affordable housing, housing advocates and preservationists worry that increasing the percentage of affordable housing in private developments will require outsize development in Brooklyn. Last week’s approval of Domino, which will have towers reaching up to 55…
As we approach the May 1 deadline for Mayor de Blasio to present his plan for 200,000 units of affordable housing, housing advocates and preservationists worry that increasing the percentage of affordable housing in private developments will require outsize development in Brooklyn. Last week’s approval of Domino, which will have towers reaching up to 55 stories, has given those advocates a prime example of this policy, according to the Daily News.
“Hopefully new affordable housing can be created without necessarily requiring a massive scale of construction to do so,” said Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
Meanwhile, City Planning Commissioner Carl Weisbrod argued that density and good design and planning don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
Mayor De Blasio’s Housing Plan Is Building Big Worries [NYDN]
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The way the current zoning resolution is drafted, affordable housing = big and tall. All R10 districts are allowed a 3.5 to 1 Inclusionary Housing floor area bonus. There are other IHP defined areas that are also given the FA bonus but only at a rate of 1.25 to 1, which is not sustainable for a residential developer. So that means the only place private affordable development is economically viable is in R10 zones which are “Big and Tall”
Yes, it is quite clear that affordable means big and tall, when the move is to buy up single family homes and tear them down and put up multifamily developments. But this has been going on for a long time now throughout the city. It is just becoming more and more apparent in its current manifestation.
Yeah. Dibs is retorted
And with no planned improvements to any of the basic infrastructure. YAY!
European tourists spend a lot of sales taxes here too. And they’ve probably actually visited Williamsburg. I don’t see them on a local blog trolling.
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