it should be legal for your neighborhood to have a corner bar you can walk to

Let's do Westchester next. Get rid of all of these people holding our communities back. Welcome Home Westchester PeteforNY AMDanaLevenberg.bsky.social

Pretty big assumption that the "American Way" from silver and golden age comics is the same "way" we see today. Back then, Captain America and Superman punched Nazis, protected minorities, and stood up to corruption. Today? We elect the Nazis to office.

THE PURPOSE OF ZONING IS TO PREVENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Someone explain to me how a bunch of these would disrupt the "character" of Peekskill. I'll listen.

This is textbook how Bad People trying to do Bad Things take Important Things (like the housing shortage/cost of living discussion) and use Good Thing language to insert Bad Thing thoughts into the lexicon. We've Gotta Build! (Good) (because of immigrants) (Bad, also Untrue)

You can't say you're a Friendly Place while creating systems that keep certain people down and out, or away all together.

Let America heal. (Providence)

Peekskill had its own electric trolley, connecting our community with Verplanck and Buchanan. Can you imagine what a cultural and economic powerhouse we could have been if they hadn't ripped it up? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill…

Remember that time we had a local builder want to build an absolutely beautiful building- with all sorts of little extras he didn't have to include- on a site full of derelict tear downs...and our mayor systematically sabotaged it?

If you sincerely care about the cause of rent affordability, there's one -- and only one -- solution widely supported by data, academics and practitioners: Build more housing. Check this out: Rents are falling where we built a lot of apartments. Rents rising where we didn't.