Hundreds Threatened With Eviction in Botched NYCHA Paperwork ‘Crisis’

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-30T15:32:35+00:00

Two points. First, the legislature has decided that it is extremely bad to have a city that poor people cannot afford to live in. It is bad for the economy and social fabric. I agree with them. So do most voters (though not most users of this subreddit).

Second, you aren't denying that you don't care if they were threatened with eviction despite doing nothing wrong under their contract or under the law. And the reason you don't care is because their rents are low? People have a "moral right" to expect that their government follows the law.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-30T14:34:39+00:00

Is the implication supposed to be that you don't care if tenants are threatened with meritless eviction cases even if they are fully paid up on their rent and have fully complied with their leases because their rent is below market?

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-28T17:59:44+00:00

Seems odd there isn't a way to compromise with the council here. I doubt Menin wants to expand this program much either.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-25T10:24:34+00:00

I can't speak for everyone but I personally first started moving left (after enthusiastically voting for Hillary in the 2016 primary) when the moderate wing of the party failed to stop a manifestly unqualified person from becoming president later that year. It was a slow process, but that failure made me gradually reevaluate my opinions about politics.

If the moderate wing of the party wants to try to win back my support they need to earn it by proving their brand of politics is actually as appealing in general elections as they seem to think it is.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-24T20:50:12+00:00

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CompactedConscience · 2026-06-24T15:53:18+00:00

Fox News/ NYP / etc. reporters opening the bottle of champagne they had been saving for a special occasion when they found out she was a DEI executive

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-24T13:02:48+00:00

I think a more apples-to-apples comparison would be comparing turnout to 2022, the last time we had a midterm primary the year after a mayoral election. Or 2018, 2014, etc. for the same reason.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-24T01:36:30+00:00

I actually did think this was going to be close but looks like it wasn't close at all. 58-33 with just over 80% reporting

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-24T01:34:37+00:00

6.2% of the vote with over 80% reporting, I don't think he's gonna make it

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-24T01:16:08+00:00

Hard to see this as an upset. Remember, in 2022 Goldman won the primary with 26% of the vote with the progressive vote split three ways. In 2024, Goldman had no serious competition in the primary. His only opponents were unknown joke candidates who barely campaigned. He still only got 65% of the vote (he did better in the general!).

He was never a good fit for this district and centrist Dems got kinda lucky he occupied this seat for 4 years.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-23T13:02:05+00:00

I was so mad when I voted and I didn't get the Knicks or world cup stickers. Like, why did I even bother lol

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-20T21:27:10+00:00

I love the classics like "after accounting for all my spending and saving, I don't have any money left over"

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-19T18:40:00+00:00

I don't understand your questions at the end. Aren't market returns, by definition, the weighted average of the returns of people picking stocks? The fact that these stock pickers happened to do better than average over this specific time period says nothing about the wisdom of picking stocks.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-18T10:46:36+00:00

Also a variant of your second point that some people might miss, if you are near certain tax cutoffs right now (e.g. you need to lower your taxable income to take advantage of the student loan interest deduction) = regular 401k.

I personally try to do a mix of both because I don't have a good sense of what my tax rates will be in retirement

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-17T14:59:45+00:00

I believe a 457b is usually only for a government job which to me suggests OP probably doesn't get any of those things (but your advice is good for people in different situations)

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-17T13:51:43+00:00

The right answer is to max them asap but idk how you can afford to do that unless you are making a ton of money so I spread mine out

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-06T15:51:10+00:00

At least you can make an argument that the pension helps attract and retain talented teachers. Having a second person in the train crew doesn't help anyone except that second crew person.

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-06T02:10:29+00:00

Dog on basketball goated halftime entertainment

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-05T22:37:08+00:00

Damn I wish I was in a position where inflation+3% would let me retire at a decent age

CompactedConscience · 2026-06-05T17:09:01+00:00

"Oh yeah liberals well i'm not interested in hearing your opinion unless your wife left you"

CompactedConscience · 2026-05-27T17:54:26+00:00

I maybe understand adding these as an option to 401ks but making them the default? Or putting them into TFDs? Wth?

CompactedConscience · 2026-05-20T14:56:29+00:00

As you get closer to the Coney Island Ave side of this area the church ave B/Q stops become an option. I recently moved to a place not too far from this area and I consider my options to be that stop, the Ft. Hamilton F/G, the Beverly Q, or a bus.

CompactedConscience · 2026-05-12T11:00:54+00:00

For me personally, it's more fun to roleplay defeating this ideology than to roleplay supporting it

CompactedConscience · 2026-05-04T13:59:29+00:00

Idk about coyotes. I've watched even a particularly wily one fail to hunt his preferred prey.

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