No more “poor doors”!The great moments of the non-free market in housing in Blue America!
Developers who receive tax breaks to build apartment buildings with affordable units can’t segregate tenants based on income, or have separate entrances for those residents living in cheaper apartments, according to a provision tucked into the rent-regulation bill passed last week.
Mayor de Blasio inserted the reform last May into his plan for the tax program, called 421-a — a move that followed a Post exposé on an Upper West Side development with a “poor door.”
The building, at 40 Riverside Blvd., includes 55 affordable units — but their tenants must use their own elevator and entrance.
“Buildings that segregate entrances for lower-income and middle-class tenants are an affront to our values,” said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
Monday, June 29, 2015
‘Poor doors’ are no more thanks to rent-regulation bill
The New York Post reports:
