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And if NYCHA waited for all the tenants to die, they’d be rightly raked over the coals for warehousing apartments.

Moving is a lot more than just a pain in the ass when they are trying to force you into an apartment that cannot accommodate your walker, and far away from your friends. This should have been handled a lot better and with more empathy and understanding of elderly residents who live together

If you read the article, the existing tenants have reasons to doubt that they will get equivalent housing in the new development, that similar projects have serious quality issues, that very little low income housing will be produced, and NYCHA estimates of rehab expense are dubious.

They should just find $78,000,000,000 in the couch cushions.

very silly version of a wealth tax yeah

Those tenants are elderly, have really significant mobility and health problems, and don't want to be dispersed away from each other to smaller and shabby *temporary for several years* locations with no real guarantee they will ever be able to come back. The city fucked this up badly

Acknowledging the existence of resource constraints and policy tradeoffs is neoliberal austerity politics.

“The same applies to quality control!” /s

So... Her answer was to make minority the ones that have to deal with?

People of color don't need money you see

I guess "bloodless quant" hadn't been coined yet?

Require 10,000 hours of non-academia labor prior to enrollment in a social science PhD challenge.

Dahomey was probably developing a fiscal military state with symbols instead of writing by the time Euros contacted them, absolutely fascinating society

Decolonization is not a metaphor. It is not vibes, papers, or essays. It's when you stiff your contractors like Donald Trump did, but leftistly.

Good grief. You can’t make that up.

See also the people in Boston opposing BRT and calling for a new orange line tunnel that no one has money for (and they would oppose if it actually was planned)