Hello, I thought Hochul was advocating for more than this, such as lifting FAR caps and changing rules to encourage office to residential conversions. Regarding Jersey City, my understanding was that Fulop has made it much easier to build in JC. Yes prices have increased but likely would have increased that much more without all the development. Also I think it’s as much about increasing utility as reducing prices. More development has meant more people get to enjoy downtown JC.

I say this as someone who was basically priced out of much of downtown JC.

If I was priced out of downtown Newark after the place exploded with development and became that much more desirable, I would still be happy with the outcome.

Just drafted and sent my letter. Working in urban planning, I focused on the application's relation to the City's new master plan and satisfaction of the legal proofs for its few and minor variances.

More residents in the downtown area does not expand the city’s tax base, and their spending at local restaurants etc. does not create new jobs? And these factors do not help the community at large?

Also hello upstairs neighbor 😊

What Hochul is doing, requiring all NY municipalities to provide for affordable housing, is something that has been in the NJ State constitution for decades (See Mt. Laurel case from ~1973). The only part of the policy that goes further in NY is a proposal to supersede local zoning and permit accessory dwelling units in all single-family zoning districts.

Of course, NJ's process is highly convoluted and messy, as the courts took over enforcement jurisdiction in 2015 from the Council on Affordable Housing, deciding that COAH and its methodology was defunct. Now affordable housing obligations are mostly enforced through litigation.

Jersey City was actually late to adopting this "round" (i.e. 2015-2025) of affordable housing mechanisms, only adopting its ordinances last summer. Given that it is by some metrics the most expensive city to rent in in the country, I wouldn't cite them as an exemplar.

Oh it definitely goes to New Brunswick, even the school cares about Rutgers New Brunswick more than it’s Newark location

In my limited experience of the hospital, it’s not bad as brutalist buildings go, but it’s an embarrassment for this prominent teaching hospital in one of the richest states in the country to look as it does. It seems like all the money goes to New Brunswick.

There’s plenty of empty hospital land to build on where the “temporary” admin buildings are now.

Theres no state allocation for this.

Are they going to destroy entire neighborhoods and displace hundreds of families like last time?

Better than the brutalist nightmare it is now. I work in the med school. They been talking about this forever, don’t hold your breath

Do it! I suggest the grilled pork chop. It’s comes deconstructed so you’ll get a quart of amazing bone broth with all the accoutrement on the side for you to combine to your liking! Life changing! Let us know!

Ive never had Pho, will give it a shot tho!

Def gonna eat some jersey pizza while im in town. Be glad to try Comet!

Thank you

What do you mean by unfunded

Looks pretty cool for a hospital, don’t know if it’ll actually happen but hey never say never.

Building more market rate housing with only the bare minimum allocated to affordable housing is not going to solve the housing issue in Newark. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - there is already more empty housing than homelessness in Newark (and every other city/town/county/state in this country) and the residential buildings that have been going up over the last 15 years hasn’t done anything but cause average rent prices in Newark to skyrocket.

This doesn’t help the community. This helps the developer make more money. That’s all.

The YIMBY cause is much bigger than one building. It's about removing barriers to new housing. There's a principle at stake here. For more on this, note Matt Yglesias' work, in particular his book, The Rent is Too Damn High.

To her credit, Gov. Hochul of New York has recognized the problem and pushed for change. I wish Gov. Murphy would do the same. Outside of JC and a few other places, NJ is just as problematic as NY.

I like the green roof tops.

It's nice to finally see this subreddit come together behind one of the biggest issues facing the city. the building or not building of a glass inanimate object... the passion. the fire. wow. this is one of the most pressing matters of the decade.

The design seems pretty dull to me.

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>You seem to abhors the fact that homeless people are in the city and not the fact that there are homeless people as a direct result of policy decisions. Homelessness is a solvable problem but building more expensive housing doesn’t solve it, it exacerbates it.

I feel very strongly that a strong middle class is the prerequisite to a strong economy for the city.

My summers in Denver as a child are proof of that.

Building more housing should not increase the cost of living for current residents, and I would love to see a form of rent control implemented to enforce that.

I would also support having mixed-income communities in addition to other affordable housing initiatives like rent-to-own, inclusionary zoning, and home ownership programs.

The city has already dipped our foot in the water for many of these, but future projects ought to prioritize them.

Homelessness as an issue sucks really bad, but it's hard to feel like nothing is being done when the city has recently unveiled it's plans to end homelessness https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2022/12/op-ed-mayor-ras-baraka-says-newark-must-put-end-to-homelessness/amp/

We can do both of these things at the same time. I think one of the biggest issues we face is the very slow bureaucratic process, but you cannot in good faith read that article and tell me that the city is doing absolutely nothing.

I think your issue is that homeless isn't being prioritized enough and you would rather see all funds go to that // the community as opposed to opening up the door to new markets and new developments.

My biggest issue with that is that a heavy chunk of our residents simply do not have the skillset to be working lots of the high paying jobs downtown offers.

As an aside, is there a barrier for entry, racism, and negative bias against those of us that are able to handle such jobs? Hell yes.

But our citizens right now are closer to security guard worker than to programmer or attorney.

The best way to fix this is to pour money into our youth, Newark Public Schools, so that the next generation of kids are prepared and equipped with these skills.

Our school budget is already over 1 billion dollars, so the resources are already there.

The management of those resources is a different conversation.

All in all, I feel like we can address most, if not all of your concerns without having to gut this project or forego other development.

Now a better question is, what's the likelihood that we'll do such a thing?

What's the likelihood that we'll implement rent control of this project goes forward?

What's the likelihood that we invest our money into tried and true tactics of community development if this project doesn't go through?

Will we take these monies and spend them right, or will we throw our bread at a different development proposal 6 months from now?

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