My 2022 wishlist for the new Council, from lowest-hanging fruit to highest:
Increase salaries & size of every Council Member office's staff
#AbolishTheTaxLienSale and use CLTs to keep debtors in their homes
Replace ULURP with a MMT-based system
#DefundNYPD by $3B
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Sorry Cea, I should have saved that one for a thread because the connection isn't obvious or commonly discussed. But basically it's about a core assumption about what is more important to our economies: private property (real estate) to privately financialize or full employment.
seems to me you are confusing a problem of local government project in general (everything funded by property taxes means that land values have to go up for school funding to go up, etc) with a question of what participatory land use policy should look like
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ULURP is just a community engagement process. absent a plan i suppose it's a terrain on which organized groups compete to get resources for their interests (more affordable housing, capital $$ for NYCHA, etc)
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but even if we were a lot more comfortable with municipal/state debt (NYCHA? lol) we would still need a democratic public engagement process for land use decisions. so maybe you have a problem with whether or not ULURP is THAT, but still don't grasp the MMT connection.
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