PINK HOUSES IN BROOKLYN DRIVER

Right now we’re talking a lot about reinventing ourselves and reimagining the city. Taylor: One of the things that I want to do is bring back more of the small businesses that are able to come back because small businesses tend to hire people within the community. What would you be doing if you were the mayor? We have to think about all of the touchpoints that are going to be created from this pandemic and make sure that we’re prepared for it.īklyner: Getting folks back to work seems to be more difficult than maybe was anticipated. How we operate in the City is going to change, because you have a lot more people that are able to work from home now, and we might see a dip in the cost of housing because people decide to move to a cheaper location while still working for their company. If we want to increase or see change as it relates to housing, we have to invest more, and we’ve got to widen the pool of developers that we are actually going to work with so that maybe we can see some cost savings. We have about 60,000 people who are homeless.

Now on average at those costs, you’re going to be able to build about 13,000 or so new apartments every year. It’s going to have 255 apartments, and I think the cost of that building is about $40 million. If you look at the cost of housing on average, for example, the building over on Flatbush Avenue and Caton Avenue in Flatbush. Right now we spend about 3% of the city’s budget on housing. But what about how are you going to help them? Are we making sure that it’s reaching the everyday person who you are proud of, who stayed home because you asked them to? I think the government that we invest in every day on a city, state, and federal level has to step up to the plate and now use those funds that we’ve invested in them to help us out in this moment. Governor Cuomo talks all the time how proud he is of all the New Yorkers. When the government asks us to go on PAUSE, I think the government should have thought about how they were going to provide some relief. We have to take care of those people, those people are taking care of us every day. NYCHA has some of your police officers, your postal workers, your civil servants living there. We’ve divested from NYCHA developments for so long they’re just crumbling around people. We have to make sure that we are providing stable housing for everyone. So one of the issues that I want to address is homelessness and housing, because to the extent that everyone is not OK, we’re all not OK. Taylor: We’ve seen a huge increase in the number of apartments that are being built, but we’ve also seen a 20% increase in homelessness. That’s the path I’m trying to take up now.īklyner: Housing is top of mind for many residents in the city. And I think everybody that I talk to, whether you’re black or white or rich or poor, we all, you know, have that common ground where we think people should have certain basic needs - to have a roof over your head, food on the table, clothes on your back. We’ve been going down a path that isn’t working. We have to create the change that we want to see. From my perspective, we are only here for a certain period of time, and if we have to go through our lives dealing with these same issues and fighting these same fights and going through the same struggles without any hope, without any, you know, means out, no vision for anything – is that a life? We have to do better than that. Taylor: I am looking for us to be a city that is inclusive, a city that is proactive and not reactive, a city that is able to allow everyone that lives in this city to live comfortably. Joycelyn Taylor, Campaign photo.īklyner: What is your vision for the kind of city New York would be under your leadership? The conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. We spoke to Taylor on the phone last week about the race, the big issues facing the city – housing, education, policing and the need to put people first. Taylor announced her run for Mayor in the 2021 election last year, and along with Dianne Morales remains one of two lifelong Brooklynites in the race – neither Eric Adams nor Maya Wiley has formally announced their candidacies. She never left Brooklyn, and these days, Taylor is busy running her contracting company and running for Mayor.

PINK HOUSES IN BROOKLYN DRIVER

Her mom stayed home with her, her four sisters, and two brothers, while her dad worked as a bus driver for the MTA. Back then, hers was one of the first black families to move into the complex. Joycelyn Taylor grew up in the Pink Houses in East New York.

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