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Mamdani's proposal for affordable NYC housing?
I read this article today. On the surface, creating 12,000 new apartments/houses sounds like a fantastic idea. I poked around and haven't seen any journalist do the math. A $21B development that generates 12,000 new living units means you spent $1.75M per unit.
That is an absolutely insane amount of spending per unit, especially if they are designed to be affordable. If that $1.75M was a loan amortized over 30 years, you would need to make payments of over $10K per month!
This is communist math, pure and simple.