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On Tuesday evening, State Assembly candidate R’ Nachman Caller presented his candidacy and plan to solve the housing crisis in the 48th District to a packed room of local activists in Borough Park.
In a speech to some 50 activists at the Orthodox Jewish Political Club (OJPC) monthly meeting in Seville Manor, R’ Nachman Caller stressed that “changes must be made at the top” to help the families who are struggling to obtain housing and jobs.
“This stress is unbearable and has caused family breakdowns. Let’s be very clear: the current housing situation is acute – and must be addressed immediately,” said State Assembly Candidate R’ Nachman Caller. “After becoming your State Assemblyman, I will be fighting for and working for you in Albany to bring more housing and more jobs to the neighborhood.”
R’ Nachman asserted, “One of the blatant failures of our longest-serving local politicians is their indifference to the obvious discrimination against our community in the current government funds allocation.”
Noting that while the Bloomberg administration constructed 160,000 affordable housing units in the city, only 252 units were constructed in the Borough Park community district, R’ Nachman Caller charged, “Some of our local politicians have been in their office for over 30 years and have permitted this unconcealed discrimination to flourish.”
He pledged, “Unlike them I will fight to get the allocation formulas changed, so that our community will get our fair share of the construction money available in the city.”
R’ Nachman elaborated on his plan, which was already distributed in the district over the past week, of building 2,000 affordable housing units over the next four years by “utilizing the available space above a rarely used railroad track, traversing the community; constructing a platform and building new housing units on that platform.”
“The project is expected to be partially financed by permitting the construction of additional market rate units which would generate the revenue to support and subsidize the affordable units,” he added. These are not just dreams. Similar type of building upon platforms is being done in other parts of the city and I am confident that it can be done here. My plan envisions building affordable housing for our community and is not being done to line the pockets of investors.”
R’ Nachman Caller concluded, “We have specific proposals to address and correct the problems. It is my wish that our families continue to grow, prosper and enjoy living in our community. As your Assemblyman, I will be working for you to make this happen!”
R’ Nachman Caller is running on the Republican Party line and on the ‘Housing and Jobs’ Party line in the 48th Assembly District, which includes the neighborhoods of Borough Park and Midwood.
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Building over the old LIRR freight tracks is possible at considerable expense. The cost of isolating the housing from the noise and fumes from the trains would be considerable. Increased use of the railway is possible in the immediate future and if the Cross Harbor Tunnel is ever built, there will be constant rail traffic 24/7 on the line.
Little housing has been built in the past because there is no land on which to build affordable housing in Boro Park. Also, the area is already overcrowded with people living in basements and 4 hamily homes where one family homes once stood. The streets, sewer lines and electrical grid and other infrastructure were not meant to handle even the current population of Boro Park.
I welcome a new Assembly member representing the area but this candidates housing proposal us unfortunatly unrealistic.
With Callers ideas, we can all be saying “there goes the neighborhood.”
Perhaps if Caller would recommend that our young people get Kosher career counseling, in preparation for earning a living in a tumultous economic climate, as well as his other ideas, Id be impressed. He certainly prepared himself well.
Nachmen Caller works very hard for a living. He aint a lazy person thats always looking to make noise to look busy. He aint a vacationer either.
BP needs Nachmen!
BP needs to change thier direction to get things rolling.
Vote NACHMAN CALLER!!!