The purpose of this site is to get more apartments built in Brooklyn. Right now people are stopping new housing from being built because they are more offended by developers -- who could also be called home builders -- making money than by the fact that there is not enough housing in Brooklyn. This site is for you, making the argument that housing is what we need and that developers have a role to play.
Others simply do not like change. Some fear the change because they think they will be forced to move and don't see where could go. To these people I say that that is why you should support more middle and upper-middle class housing. Middle class people have to live somewhere. If housing isn't built for them they will buy out poor and working-class housing.
Some don't like the demographic change. Their neighborhood is changing around them; the smells and institutions that have existed for a generation or more is slowly disappearing. It's a traumatic experience for those living through it and should not be belittled. However, this is the story of New York. Your parents displaced the demographic group that existed before you and those people felt just as bewildered and just as dismayed by the disappearance of what they held dear. I sympathize, but as with all immigrant groups before you who were displaced, this is the Brooklyn experience.
Some don't like the middle and upper middle class because they are wealthy and don't want to live among them. Too fucking bad. Maybe now you'll won't go out of your way to prevent luxury condos. They wouldn't be coming to your neighborhood if they had a place to live elsewhere.
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