The foundation of the new policy is that New York state will be able to authorize first responders to forcibly hospitalize mentally ill New Yorkers who cannot meet their own basic needs such as food, shelter or medical care.
During a manufactured housing crisis that is only getting worse though…
I’ll admit I don’t know enough about the NY housing market to comment on this - what do you mean by this?
All the residences are owned by the same tiny handful of companies/oligarchs (and their million shell companies that they hide behind) who use software to manipulate the price and keep it inflated (there was literally a court case about this)
To give an example, when one of my landlords raised my rent by 30% he shrugged and said that was the new market rate. My partner and I looked up his company and found that he owned ~500 buildings in the same neighborhood. The asshole WAS the market
Ok so it’s not manufactured by the government or anything, it’s just rich people manipulating markets like they always do and always will?
Our mayor is a landlord and former cop who was investigated by the FBI for bribery until he cozied up with Trump
So yeah, it’s enabled by the government
