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How would a city that took their needs seriously and placed them at the center of its politics look different?
✏️ A question that sparked my imagination and interest. What are things to focus a city’s budget on? 🔗 View Highlight
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one thing, it would relentlessly focus on affordable housing, making this a priority in every possible way: holding down rents, protecting tenants, repairing the public housing authority NYCHA, converting vacant office towers to apartments, and building new housing in the city and suburbs.
✏️ First priority is housing for all. Having a home addresses so many related needs and concerns that pop up when one is homeless. 🔗 View Highlight
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For another, it would do all it could to invest heavily in transit to make it easy and cheap to get around this magnificent city
✏️ Second is transportation 🔗 View Highlight
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For a third, it would devote resources to schools throughout the city to lessen the competitive pressures that cause needless fights over scarce space in a few elite schools,
✏️ Third is education 🔗 View Highlight
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finally, it might make spending on public health, homeless shelters, and resources that are aimed at the poorest New Yorkers a real priority
✏️ Fourth is spending on the poor and needy 🔗 View Highlight
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An egalitarian city would be one in which fewer people are subject to the wrenching personal disasters of eviction and visible penury; it would be one in which the school system would not be so tasked with addressing the divisions that rend the whole society; it would be a city devoted to public safety and security in the largest sense of the word.
✏️ What a vision of an egalitarian city would be 🔗 View Highlight