South Brooklyn DSA

The cost of construction is not why housing is unaffordable c'mon bro

No, but a lack of construction of inexpensive apartments is. You cant build inexpensive apartments in Brooklyn.

Hi are you a developer? have you ever heard about gentrification?

I'm not a developer, and I've worked against gentrification for quite a number of years. Building a lot of new cheap rentals in areas that are not at risk for gentrification is the best way to keep people from gentrifying other areas. There's more people in NYC every year and

they all need housing. Building housing is the only way to create that housing. I live in a pre-war with 50 units and no parking, it'd be illegal to build it now because of parking requirements, but if we built more like it then we would have less of a problem with gentrification

You must be aware that developers don't want to build affordable housing. It's not lucrative. Every "affordable" unit has to be coerced from them, and you would still have to earn 50-60k on the books to qualify for it.

They don't want to build "affordable" housing, but they're fine with building as much housing that they can even if they can't sell them for a lot of money each. Most "affordable" housing is just regular apartments that the developer has been forced to rent for less than they

want to. But without car mandates the city could force them to build even more units that are smaller and actually affordable and then people who would otherwise gentrify will move to those neighborhoods. Either way, parking minimums suck and reduce the number of housing units.