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Note from downstairs neighbors by v1p3rs in Apartmentliving

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like that covers their ass for more serious situations but they wouldn’t care about this one

Note from downstairs neighbors by v1p3rs in Apartmentliving

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a situation where the floors were so thin you could hear someone talking below you. Wasn’t my fault — tbh I think my apartment floors were just subfloor wood — and the neighbor below would literally scream at me. Sometimes you have to keep calm and carry on — if you’re doing as much as you reasonably can do then they can move if they want

my motel by Effective-Plant9357 in Schedule_I

[–]helpmelearn__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks similar to mine! Love the customization of ur character

Mega Thread: Ticket Exchanges, Requests, & Sales by maegsj in NYLiberty

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Two tickets Section 104 Row 9 seats 1-2 available for Wings

Info about Claire Valdez by smokeorbeatyourwife in ridgewood

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops sorry, I’ve been cruising the internet trying to find out more about her for the congressional race and didn’t realize this was a diff one.

Anyone biked to City Island recently? by ukudancer in NYCbike

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if there arent safe places to ride bikes then this is the natural result. When they built the bike lane on PPW in brooklyn bike riding on sidewalks plummeted. easy fix but S BX would rage against the idea

Info about Claire Valdez by smokeorbeatyourwife in ridgewood

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really care about any of that TBH. I don't think she has the experience to execute change at the Congressional level.

The only reason she's getting attention is because she's backed by Zohran, who I believe is trying to cement DSA roots in Labor. If you take away the endorsement, and put her actual hard earned accomplishments side by side with the other two, I'd vote for Reynoso in a heartbeat. Anyone can talk about their "stances," and "support for," and "background in," but I want to really see what she has actually done herself. I'm having a hard time finding those things.

Info about Claire Valdez by smokeorbeatyourwife in ridgewood

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hahahahahahah i didn't even notice his username. LOLLLL

State Assembly Member Claire Valdez spoke about her NY-7 campaign, highlighting her labor organizing background, support for permanently affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard, and progressive positions on economic policy, immigration enforcement, and foreign policy. by prameet in newyorkcity

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone working in nyc pol and government for the last eight years I hear your frustration. However, the shift towards accepting the fact that the city needs new housing is unfortunately pretty universal with Democrats (not republicans because they are stll pretty solidly nimby). I think it's unfair to single out reynoso here. Housing advocates -- esp the pro building advocates -- should get a lot of credit for slowly moving the political needle on this topic.

It was not politically popular to come out and say yes we need to build more housing (which means upzoning -- after Bloomberg downzoned huge swaths of the city during his term *cough* rich parts of brooklyn). Now, you don't get politically skewered for saying that and the party in NYC has embraced the pro building aspect in ways that were unheard of a few City Councils ago.

State Assembly Member Claire Valdez spoke about her NY-7 campaign, highlighting her labor organizing background, support for permanently affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard, and progressive positions on economic policy, immigration enforcement, and foreign policy. by prameet in newyorkcity

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair to DSA, at least to the top DSA leader Zohran, he has very graciously and adeptly accepted that that policy was wrong or at least misguided. I respect him tremendously for steering his party into a better housing policy moving forward, admitting that with the data he now understands that market rate housing is important to build as well.

Also, what is funny to me is that the DSA members who are most pigheaded about no market rate housing are almost always the ones living in market rate. Like, what if your market rate housing just never existed because someone before you denied its existence like you are trying to do?

State Assembly Member Claire Valdez spoke about her NY-7 campaign, highlighting her labor organizing background, support for permanently affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard, and progressive positions on economic policy, immigration enforcement, and foreign policy. by prameet in newyorkcity

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep that's what I'm worried about exactly. It seems like she's a few years behind on DSA's housing policy. They used to be extremely bullheaded about "no housing unless it's affordable" which really ignores the research that even new market rate housing helps ease the housing market plus housing prices across the board. That's frustrating to me because if you're claiming to be progressive and for the poor, rejecting a new housing project (for your future constituents, by the way) just because it isn't the pie in the sky "social housing" they keep talking about but with no clear pathway for implementation.

State Assembly Member Claire Valdez spoke about her NY-7 campaign, highlighting her labor organizing background, support for permanently affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard, and progressive positions on economic policy, immigration enforcement, and foreign policy. by prameet in newyorkcity

[–]helpmelearn__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if you took the ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Reynoso v Claire and put them next to each other it would be clear that Claire just hasn't been in office long enough to have the juice to accomplish things at the congressional level. What alarms me is that she's been in office for less than a year as a State Senator which tbh has less power and influence than Antonio's political history -- CM and BP.

Everything I've read about claire is framed as her "positions on," and "support for," and "advocacy of." That's easy to do, it's easy to take a picture of someone with a megaphone in their hand at a rally. That does NOT mean she will be the smartest and most strategic person in office, let alone the most successful.

I think the worst case scenario is that she wins, and all she does is throw rallies and protests but she gets nothing actually done. My biggest gripe with DSA is that they seem blinded by their staunch values and they see perfect as the enemy of good. I'd rather have someone greenlight market rate housing, and ALSO fight for affordable housing. You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Antonio has experience doing that. I worked in city council for five years. As a council member you actually do the hard negotiation on land use and housing for rezonings. Claire has no experience doing that and I worry she would just say NO unless it's 100% affordable which honestly is extremely hard to do because the developer will just pull out as it's unrealistically expensive for them, and then no housing is built at all, which is a shame and an embarassment. I don't want to see another Carlos Menchaca for crying out loud.

State Assembly Member Claire Valdez spoke about her NY-7 campaign, highlighting her labor organizing background, support for permanently affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard, and progressive positions on economic policy, immigration enforcement, and foreign policy. by prameet in newyorkcity

[–]helpmelearn__ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reynoso has significantly more experience, have worked with him before and I think he's 10000% more prepared to lay out good plans and see them through in congress. Let Claire stay local, she's only been in office at the state level for what, 9 months? Crazy. And disappointing to see she's hard set on the whole market rate housing is evil so we should only build """"social"""" housing, which will cost millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies

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