We need jobs!

“There’s an old saying popular with skeptics of government initiatives: The best social program is a job. But these days, too many jobs don’t pay enough to make ends meet in New York City, where housing costs have risen three times as fast as median income during the past 15 years.”

“Manufacturing in the city is a shell of its former self, but it’s a hard shell, with 75,000 employees providing products and services for other local businesses. That’s roughly the number of affordable apartments that the mayor proposes to create over 10 years. If he creates those units but loses our industrial jobs to low-wage sectors whose workers require subsidized housing, he will have accomplished nothing.”

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No housing is affordable without a job | Crain’s New York Business

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