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January 1, 2006
ACORN, Ratner and Bad Development Ideas in Brooklyn
The Daily Gotham rounds up community commentary on ACORN, from sources including the Drum Major Institute and Chris Owens:
But there is another disturbing aspect of the whole development issue under Bloomberg. This issue is dividing the left. Labor is too blindly in favor of any and all development plans, even if they are directly contrary to the vision the neighborhood has for its own development, as indicated by neighborhood 197-a plans which the city approves then ignores. Labor is slowly losing its credibility with progressives, the very people who originally supported the labor movement in the United States. By blindly trusting Bloomberg and his developer friends, the construction unions are making a pact with the devil that will alienate entire neighborhoods as well as the progressive movement in general.But there are even a handful of traditionally progressive organizations that, partly due to links to labor and partly due to unenforceable promises of “affordable housing” from the developers, are also buying into the Bloomberg, grandiose development plans.
Posted by amy at January 1, 2006 11:25 AM