Supertall Affordable Scam
In a Supertall Tower, How Much Affordable Housing Is Enough?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/realestate/5-world-trade-center-affordable.html
This contretemps opens the door usually closed to public participation in large scale projects promoted by inaccessible development agencies operating in the dark recesses of private clubs and boardrooms and landed estates outside accountability.
Keep it open to invite more participants closer to 99.5% democracy to benefit the most citizenry and further from autocracy of the .5% which has enjoyed privileges of royalty since the city was founded under white guys guise of "New" old country corruption branded as New World this or that.
For a mere $24 the grand old thieves swiped the island and encouraged emulators of New England, New Jersey, New Mexico, thanks to Alexander Hamilton's ingenious financial shenanigans skills at setting up a nation bank to grease the wheels of continental invasion and development against all-too-gullible and lesser armed natives.
Supertalls, high rises, densification, zoning, malleable federal, state and municipal oversight agencies, bribery of locals and promoting them for office, setting up of city, state and bi-state development orgs with diminished public oversight has been the result, an "affordable housing" supertall the latest indicator of stench in the pig sty.
Supertallism deserves a Moreland Act Commission to investigate fat subsidies, City Planning favoritism and Building Department's Development Hub all too readily approval, sham structural engineering peer reviews, lax inspection of construction sites, friendly environmental OKs.