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• [1] Chuck from Brooklyn November 12, 2009 - 11:41AM

  I'm already paying for people to live in low income housing through my taxes! Enough!

  What about some middle income housing.

  It's disgusting that the only way you can live in the city is becoming if you are poor or rich.

  
  
• [2] Chris from New York November 12, 2009 - 11:44AM

  What is being considered low income? I have been looking to buy a place for some time. Low income housing has a cut off of less than $38k/year. How are people making so little expected to even afford an "affordable condo/co-op that cost $200k & up? I make less than 60k and nothing is within my reach. I'm making too much for an "affordable housing program" but too little to buy anything else.

  
  
• [3] Chuck from Brooklyn November 12, 2009 - 11:45AM

  Give me a break! Making their communities more livable? Ha.

  Graffiti, scratchitti, littering, loitering...

  
  
• [4] andrea from Manhattan November 12, 2009 - 11:46AM

  I live in Manhattan Plaza and this building went from failed luxury housing to Section 8 housing in the 1970s, I hope your guests will look to the "Miracle on 42nd Street" as a model for their proposal. Not everyone will be able to afford a mortgage, rental housing should also be considered.

  
  
• [5] Gary from Upper Left Side November 12, 2009 - 11:46AM

  Sorry to inform your guests, but THERE IS NO RIGHT TO HOUSING, let alone affordable housing. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution, New York State Constitution or anywhere else. That's the way it is.

  
  
• [6] kate from washington heights November 12, 2009 - 11:46AM

  Chuck, There are plenty of no-fee apartments in the city, in Inwood, Washington Heights, and the better areas of Harlem for under $1,000. Unfortunately, white, middle-income people don't want to live in them.

  
  
• [7] Chris from New York November 12, 2009 - 11:46AM

  I agree 100% with Chuck from Brooklyn.

  
  
• [8] Tim from Queens from Queens November 12, 2009 - 11:50AM

  City to just "take the property". Are you serious? Young man you need to be concerned about the developers because they have the power financially and politically in this city. This city lives and breathes through real estate, always has always will. You need to understand your enemy to be able to counter it.

  
  
• [9] john from office November 12, 2009 - 11:51AM

  Brian sounded so proud of his little socialist. A product of Radio Rookies. Like animal farm, lets see how he feels when he ones property. The areas in question are being improved by the middle class, the old residents ruined those areas.

  
  
• [10] asdf November 12, 2009 - 12:07PM

  In this case I must thank john from office and Tim from Queens. for helping me to pull back from my temptation to blindly applaud that "eminent domain" reversal move. It's clever and immediately gratifying for those horrified at previous eminent domains but what comes next is dark indeed, fit for Peking and Bangalore but this place of ours.

  
  
• [11] George from Brooklyn November 12, 2009 - 12:27PM

  These are well meaning but misguided activists. They would be the first to protest the means of eminent domain for Atlantic Yards but believe it is justified for their "good" ends. Instead of punishing developers after expensive condos are built they should advocate better city planning for construction of mixed income housing for all income levels. And yes, it is disappointing that Brian gushes about them being Radio Rookies instead of asking tough questions. I exercised my "basic human right of affordable housing" by moving from Park Slope to Sunset Park and I love it!