City City Candidate Brad Lander removes tweet for Bronx housing

Some people on X are called Brad Landers, a city controller and a mayor candidate as “Brad Pander”. There is even The parody account by this name. It seemed unfair to me, because other politicians wandered more than Lander.

Maybe I have to view. On Thursday, Lander said in an interview with Bronx:

“One way to look at this is the average rent for an existing family in Bronx (IS) $ 1400. The average unit rental request in Bronx now exceeds $ 3,000. So if you simply produce new units and these units cost $ 3,000, $ 3,100, $ 3200, it’s not for someone of Bronx. And it is even worse than because people are pushing out of existing buildings. “

When the Lander’s office tweeted his paraphrase quotes, dear Atlantic writer, Jerusalem Demssas, replied Three Emos “Woozy Face”. Then she commented, “The more I think of that Anger I get. Stop lying to people about how the world works. “

Demsas added, “This guy is running for the mayor of New -York! It’s crazy!”

What she painted her anger is a Lander’s claim that housing is forcing people to push out of their own apartments. This is probably the most detrimental myth of housing crisis.

Studies have consistently shown that it is not true, but in Bronx it is even more obvious where the vast majority of lease units stabilize. These tenants guarantee the renewal of the lease as long as they continue to pay their (low) lease.

They can only benefit from $ 3,000 per month that are being built around them, reducing poverty concentration and drawing new retail, restaurants and convenience to the neighborhood. I have known Landers for 20 years because he held a fifth Avenue committee in Park Slop and believed that he understood it.

But Lander actually intensified two myths in his quote, the second is that no one in Bronx wants and can afford an apartment of $ 3,000. Obviously, he did not spend a lot of time with Major Carter. (See my interview with her here.)

Lander’s office removed his tweet but i Repaired his exact quote with an interview. Accountability, you know?

The candidate continued to say that the Bronx needed a rethinking as the one he did in Gowan, which, as expected, would give 8,000 units, including 3000 available. The locals are not sure about the winnings of the housing lotteries for available units, so if the Lander said was true, the units he allowed would cause them to be “nominated from existing buildings.”

Fortunately, this is not true. Any politician who says otherwise is… confused.

What do we think about: When the Republicans of Congress and the Trump administration create a replacement of the law on reduction of taxes and jobs ending, whether restrictions on public and local tax deductions will be raised so that the representative Mike Lauleler does not keep his promise not to vote for the tax invoice “Do not lift the cap – but Actually won’t lift it up enough to cost more than standard deductions?

The thing we learned: The recent report of the Brukings Institute holds the post of State Department of Transport of New -York The second worst Of the 50 state transport agencies on the basis of long -term planning, project selection, local cooperation and public participation. Only Alabama was worse.

Elsewhere …

CityFheps vouchers are mainly rented in certain areas of Bronx and South -East Brooklyn, urban borders Reports.

This is largely explained by the housing economy: these are areas with units that receive larger (and more consistent) rental payments from voucher owners than from the free market tenants.

Otherwise, lease rental rental for a lot more than vouchers, worth the fact that voucher owners cannot allow them to rent a lease for so much more that the full cost of vouchers cannot be used and units rarely become available in any -What case. Voucher owners have a limited time window to find the apartment before the end of the subsidy.

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Closing time

Residential: The most valuable residential sale on Thursday $ 8 million For 3,436 square feet, the condominium sales of sponsors on 35 yards Hudson. Richard Hottinger from Corcoran Group had a list.

Commercial: The most expensive commercial closure of the day was $ 14.1 million For 38 700 square feet, a 29-single apartment building for 529 Eastern 85th Street in Yorkville.

New on the market: The highest price for residential real estate that got into the market $ 35 million For Townhouse 7.373 square feet on West 12-A in Greenwich Wildege. The Stein team in International Realty’s Sotheby has a list.

Land violation: The largest statement about the new building was 20 716 square feet, eight-storey, 29-single residential building for 1619 Undercliff Avenue in Morris-Hates. Nicholas Katz from Nicholas Katz the architect has granted permission on behalf of SG Ny Capital.

– Matthew Elo