.OpenNYForAll's data bros, jaded brokers, and occasional lefty are ready to build, baby, build. bridgetgillard reports
The Real Deal: “We do not engage in working-class communities of color.”) During the pandemic, they supported hotel conversions for homeless residents on the Upper West Side.
The organization’s leadership is rounded out by Thomas, who previously worked in homeless advocacy; Logan Phares, the new political director, a former legislative representative in the mayor’s office; and policy director Andrew Fine, who worked in Fair Housing at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. “There’s kind of this assumption out there that YIMBY groups are pure libertarian, Reaganite, trickle-down economics,” Gray told me.
Open New York’s most vocal detractors are motivated by a belief that the market can’t produce just housing outcomes — choose your housing data study and go fight about it — and what they see as the organization’s ties to moneyed big-tech, real-estate, and development interests in the city that are antagonists to the very price controls the organization has endorsed: $1.
Weaver says Open New York’s endorsement of Good Cause “hasn’t helped so far” in Albany, and that she isn’t relying on the group to get it done. “The principle of regulating the real-estate market is what we’re fighting,” she says. “YIMBY ideology is comfortable to people who have power.” But the pitch is working elsewhere: “I was skeptical for a while,” says Seth Pollack, an Open New York member and Director of Community Mobilization at Housing Works, who also pays dues with DSA.
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