it seems to me if you want to vastly increase the amount of rental assistance vouchers at the city level (good to reduce homelessness) you're REALLY going to also need to increase the housing supply in the city...1/3
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...which is pretty uncomfortable for progressives/socialists (me!) given who is building all the housing around here. but we could have a big social housing developer instead, and we must fight for that! then the big operating subsidy (vouchers) can go to us (the public!) 2/3
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and if that's what we really need (a social housing developer) we need our focus on albany: can't do this big change with the city budget and the mayor pushing 3% cuts 3/3
