https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/business/media/a-new-effort-from-a-new-jersey-city-urges-make-it-yours.html

The sole reason? No. Do I believe they deliberately courted high income folks to price out working class residents?Absolutely and it was extremely transparent at the time.

City spent 1.2 million on the ad campaign in 2014 after giving out tax abatements for luxury high rises. It’s SO weird how 10 years later there isn’t enough affordable housing and the only solution is more luxury rentals 🤔

Is there a sale on domestic violence?

Ding ding

It is insane they needed to make an ad campaign when NYC is right there. Kind of makes you wonder why they did it doesn’t it?

So crazy how our only solution to the housing crisis is making it so only rich transplants can afford to live here and existing residents relocate and enjoy none of the “improvements”.

sound out the words slowly and you might get to the part where I said “by the city at the time”

ah so we agree that the tax abatements being handed out like candy by the city at the time were completely unnecessary?

If only Fulop had known ahead of time that trying to make JC enticing to transplants was going to create an alleged housing shortage that could only be solved by building more luxury rentals with insane rent increases every year.

I’m sure he had no idea 🥹…but I’m sure he’s pleased with his multiple home renovations by Dixon.

We should find out if their Mayor also did an entire ad campaign begging developers to build and see how much we have in common!

It’s SO weird how out of all those solutions for affordable housing the only one that ever gets executed involves developers getting more money 🤔

oh well I guess we’ll trust the process and just let them keep polluting the city with luxury rentals and pricing out the existing population until we finally figure this out

But then how is Fulop going to get all his free home renovations if he’s not bending over backwards for developers?

Don’t forget about the 10 million JC lost because our city council approved the budget too late :)

Did you read the article? Because it details how these giant corporate landlords have essentially monopolized the rental market using an app and it has little to do with property taxes. Their goal is profit not providing housing which is why letting them build rentals so freely all over JC was a slap in the face to its existing residents.

“Make it Yours!”

This is what solving the housing crisis looks like right? Letting national equity firms suck up all the housing supply and then pretending they are doing the city they priced everyone out of a favor. 🤩

Is Fulop a cop?

Nope

They let cops cut you if you’re waiting in line so I’m sure they’ll be fine.

Waaaaaack

Starts with an M….ends with deprived

Well said

“Does anyone have suggestions on how to make the heights more expensive? I am very smart. Thanks!”

?? Central Ave has multiple old school pizza joints and runs parallel to Palisades. How much pizza do you people need?

Well the good news is you don’t have to live here for a full decade before you realize how blatantly corrupt our local government is regardless of the vibe and attitude from a random person on Reddit. You’ll catch up in no time :)

I’ve lived here for over a decade. Please try and let us know how it goes! Hope the mayor responds to “pretty please can you not be corrupt? 🥺”

You’re getting downvoted because you’re describing most of the people in this sub

In their defense if the mayor has made it blatantly clear that he doesn’t give a shit about traffic enforcement what do you expect anyone else to do?