This particular scenario would be up to the person whether through demanding better pay, quitting, or unionize. I think the bigger issue is long term NYC residents being pushed out of their neighborhoods. In a capitalist society that's hard to prevent but ideally people would profit from the sales of their homes and use it to move to lower costs areas appropriate for them and their fiances. Unfortunately the answer for that in many cases is outside NYC like Florida.

Oh definitely but in the framework of the article it doesn't mean you can't find a place to live in NY, just that it gets you a lot less. For those that make much less it's much harder to get by much less get ahead.

It's not as black and white as that, as NYC used to have a range of housing at affordable price points relative to your position, giving a lot of immigrants their head start. But the acceleration of people being priced out of the neighborhoods and communities they grew up occured while wages were pushed down. Overall homeownership in America is low thanks to the govt bailing out in 08 the very wall street companies that caused the crash instead of the builders and mortgage companies supporting lower income ranges. So now you've got NYC families being pushed out. A bigger issue for families on the lower income scale as picking up and moving to low cost states to compete with existing residents for low skill jobs is probably not practical. NY govt fails to do any long term planning and relies on "private sector" leadership which means no one will build low cost housing unless they make a lot of money. Affordable housing solution is to sprawl out to surrounding areas but that was already done with NYCers moving to NJ and transit infrastructure built. Now there's little political will for the effort to sprawl upstate.

Does he provide healthcare? If no healthcare I would say her actual take home is $78k and that's not counting if he provides retirement match plan, though if he pays under the table then that's better than if you're making 120k

I think six figures is a bit of an exaggeration as theres more affordable housing (or arrangements like room mates )further out from Manhattan. But big corps can find ways to fill the void like packaged food prepared off site or in ghost kitchens. McDonald's is researching robotics and already has self serve kiosks

The govt will just outsource everything and will wind up paying more than if they had offered competitive wages

I have a theory that much of current American capitalism is finding ways to shift costs(including labor and time) to someone else. I would say current crisis has been brewing partly because employers were able to get away with low salaries and benefits for a long time. The resulting consequences of people being priced out causing homelessness was shifted to tax payers to pay for homeless shelters. NYC politicians talk a lot about affordable housing but ultimately fail to enact anything and keep leaning on private sector solutions because they're backed by real estate industry yet propped up by property tax revenue. Unfortunately in this musical chairs of shifting responsibility and costs it's hard to see a solution. If govt services collapse the govt might resort to outsourcing complete depts

Not really it works out for the major voting blocs who can carve out favorable politicians and kickbacks. If you saw the quote I included just one NYC union I've never heard of out of hundreds, had over 160k members. Adams had the popular support of the majority of unions. A normal NYC middle class voter can't muster a voting bloc large enough to overcome established interests and party interests (which also get national backing and support). That's why independents can't gain any ground in NYC

Also special interest include unions police, teachers, if you're not from NY you may not be aware that winning a union endorsement can guarantee you a election. quote "That’s why Adams can boast a long list of union endorsements including some of the most powerful in the city. He has been backed by 32BJ SEIU, the property services workers union with more than 160,000 members,"

Actually it's the right to shelter law that the issue as these are asylum applicants that couldn't be deported anyway. Abbot is just harping to make a political point. Right to shelter has good intentions but should be tweaked to apply to NY residence only and everyone else a case by case basis

NYC population is over 8 million. it's obvious these billion dollar industries have a large amount of people who support the status quo and the establishment party, while special interests carve out their own kick backs, leaving the middle class on the hook.

I didn't vote for it, my votes are drowned out by political machine supporters and special interest voters.

Also for real estate companies and owners who charge the city for housing the homeless and migrants. Take from the middle class and give to the wealthy

How much was the charge?

Not sure if they purposely doing these things vs symptoms of dysfunctional government. From what I understand it's basically down to the byzantine politics and dysfunctional infighting and competing priorities. One of the easiest issues to understand is from what I hear is the poor relationship between teachers and "management"(principles and DOE). Then the other is that DOE management doesn't appear to be a promote from within culture based on performance, the real decision makers are political appointments who basically redo everything from scratch when they're in. Maybe the best analogy is that the school system is as dysfunctional as the MTA except the definition of success is made even muddier. Then in my opinion I feel that the system has grown so big that more authority should be given to local schools and local elected officials. The DOE and political appointee are too far removed from the neighborhoods which are basically cities onto themselves population wise.

Not OP but I think charter schools in NYC are a makeshift bandaid and political bandaid to address the inability to meet the needs and wants by parents of schools due to bureaucracy, infighting withing government, competing politics and educational goals, and power of teacher unions. Basically similar to outsourcing govt services to outside companies (which has advantages of not being tied up in bureaucracy and plausible deniability if contractor messes up) but in this case the government maintains control of a competing service(public school vs outsourced charter school). The existence of charter schools is due to government and political dysfunction (which seems to be worsening in NYC) so unless those disappear charter schools aren't likely either. Also keep in mind there's a lot of tax payer money out there so everyone wants it to be used the way they want it to be used.

like anything it's usually a few bad apples that ruin things for everyone else. My friends elderly mom got hit by a car. Lawyer got her 60k plus hospital bills. If e vehicles are required to be insured it could also lead to the delivery services requiring only licensed vehicles be used and employers held liable or bikes confiscated for being unlicensed. Fake license plates is part of the general NYC police indifference which is impacting all crime levels but eventually politicians will get police to make this a priority again, I long island there are crack downs on fake paper plates from time to time. Unfortunately in the US only major fear of consequences motivate the bad actors

Cars drivers at least you can sue for liability for injuries, death, and property damage due to insurance and license plates identifying the car. I know there are responsible e riders but the large amount of bad ones and bad delivery ones don't give me much sympathy with their hit and runs.

In NYC homeowner is responsible for pest control. Exterminators can trap raccoons, I think it's a few hundred per raccoon, usually it's the same group of raccoons causing problems. For deterrents landlord can take various actions such as securing garbage around property

Unfortunately you're on the hook but maybe consult with an account if there's any deductions you're missing that would avoid the underpayment or late pay penalty

There's other factors like need for population and labor pool growth that prevent politicians from being 100% against. The US should adopt a EU style approach to south America to control migration. EU still has refugees problems as it's connected to the rest of the world. But the Americas are separated by oceans so the main migration concern is limited

Im curious if anyone will ever publish an expose of the inner reward system of police forces. Bad behavior is often caused by incentives leadership sets for people to get ahead. I have a theory that somehow arrests are incentivized or a quota exists, but no monitoring whether those arrests are justified

Challenge is that drug pusher national cartels focus is on the USA due to the billions involved, making the scale much larger. A more analogous historical example is the "opium war" between Britain and China, except a point can be made that be made it's a war that's waged between economic classes

Smaller European countries are bad example as drug cartels are chasing where the money is and also geographic differences.

US has definitely messed up but What many people don't realize is that one primary root of issues it's a war waged on the US except that the government does not take other nations to task in order to reap big business profits. The history of China's opium war is a closer analogy.