On Wednesday, Assemblyman Dov Hikind offered a plan to solve the housing crisis: give up hope, don’t seek solutions, just live with it and allow your kids to move away from this community.
In an interview with a major Hebrew publication, Mr. Hikind was quoted as saying, “There won’t be 2,000 or 10,000 housing units, simply because we can’t build… if I could’ve helped people build apartments I would have done it a long time ago… we just can’t build more housing… More housing will not happen.”
Instead of giving up, State Assembly candidate R’ Nachman Caller released a plan that would solve the housing crisis in our community, bring an end to the arguments of the past, and kick off a new era of developments in our community in Borough Park and Flatbush.
“Our community is suffering from a housing crisis. A plan NOT to have a plan is not a plan. We need to do everything possible to offer a bold solution,” said State Assembly candidate R’ Nachman Caller.
Added R’ Nachman Caller, “Our plan is not just a dream, it’s a vision; it’s a proposal that will allow us to build affordable and market rate housing in the community in a short period of time. Our plan is about offering hope to the families who are struggling and to the working class who are paying their fair share to society but are not getting anything in return. Let’s not give up hope. Let’s not give in to the cynics and to those that have no led. Let’s shape the future and the future of our children and generations to come.”
The ‘My plan’ booklet that is being distributed in the district, has first and foremost brought awareness to a crisis that existed for years but was never coherently addressed. The plan contains an illustration that shows how one of the areas of focus consists of five to six full square blocks covering the railroad that is located on 61st and 62nd Streets, running between 8th and 13th Avenues. The area covered by the railroad is controlled by the MTA. Under the plan, the community would purchase the air rights above the railroad and build platforms to hold the newly constructed buildings.
Download ‘My Plan’ at http://caller2014.com
“This Borough Park rail yard housing plan is the best and most thoughtful I have seen since I have been in office. The MTA has assured me that the plan can work, and with the support of our elected officials, the MTA will move forward to allow bidding on the rights to develop on top of the rail yards.” (Councilman David Greenfield – 10-30-14)
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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Nachman Caller – keep up you great work!
You got the votes this time & will win – big time!
Hatzlacha!
A few things here are disconcerting.
This candidate is running for office on one single campaign issue – housing. I am sure there are some that consider this a major issue, and he is obviously hoping that this will carry him to victory. I do not share his expectation at all. I see the housing issue as quite far down the list. If that is all that Caller has to offer, I would not lose the incumbent in the process.
Until a short while ago, all we heard from Caller was about this issue. I could not find any negative campaigning. That was a relief. But the mail of the past week was more than unkind. It was filled with accusatory statements about Dov Hikind, most of which were flatly untrue. He is oblivious that the assemblyman casts only a single vote, and that bills get passed on majority votes. He holds Dov responsible for more than is legitimate. That negative stuff, with compromised honesty, has led me to firmly reject Caller.
if he gets 45% that means a vibrant young Hasid can take out Hikind next time in 2016.
Dov has a plane for tuition and it is a solid plane. All my friends and family are so happy about it and will vote for Hikind.
the crew, why didnt he do anything for the last 32 years then?
And having a dream is just about waking up and realizing that you just woke up. And it was all a dream. Is Mr. Caller telling us exactly where he is going to get the billions and who is ready to give up their property? to build?
So far its all a dream.
By the way, I do agree we can build large building complexes. Condos etc.. But not in Boro Park. Maybe a developer can buy off a few old abandon warehouse buildings in Brooklyn somewhere on 3rd Avenue.
Assemblyman Hikind, What happened to the now defunct “kosher enfocement Bureau”??????? a slow death?
Assemblyman, when you realize you are on the wrong train, you don’t have to wait to the last stop to get off.
Nowecant he did
Buses for all the schools
Special Ed
Tap $5,000 per student
The corner cameras all over Boro Park and Flatbush
This is just a few off hand. .
yudel Dov is on the right train and is doing more for our community than anyone ever did for us.
I agree no one has a monopoly on the assembly, State Senate or Council. There should be TERM LIMITS on all “elected” tax paid salary positions. Power corrupts, absolute power….. Having said that, I was undecided until last week, when we received very negative mailings. I was told that the person (owns a famous bakery in Boro Park) who’s face appears on that mailing, was very angry at the Caller campaign for using it in such a disgusting and negative way.
It seems that Caller is personally a very nice guy and a good person but the PR team that he hired has turned Hikind into a rodef and it has turned people who were ready to vote for Caller back into Hikinds camp.
the crew;
cameras dont alleviate the tuition burden neither does TAP for SCHOOL children not bochurim who are “low income”, I am taling about tuition for schools not “rabbinical schools”
You are so right Caller is a great man and can learn. He was pulled into this by a Friedman guy that is trying to stir up thing for his personal money he is making off this dirt.
I will go to a shur and listen to Callal speak in learning or any other interesting subject.
Lets support Dov Hikind and go out and vote for him.
Dov Hikind missed 47% of the votes in the Assembly.
The Defunct and closed Kosher enforcement Bureau all happened under Dov Hikind’s reign.
I think R’ Nachman Caller would not have let it happen.
Yudel…. R’Nachman doesn’t even know where the Assembly is,he is a great guy but not for this job.
I’m surprised that he let these people use him.
Dov should be our man in Albany.
I live in the Bronx rather than Brooklyn, but I don’t understand how a State Assemblyman can influence housing developments. Caller should run for City Council or Borough President because they are the go-to agencies to make new projects happen.
Mr Caller… Why do have to be an assemblyman for your housing plan ! If your plan is so good, and you want to help the people community, than after you loose this election seat down with Mr Hikind and other elected officials and together make this plan work. But Stop bashing Hikind – a person that has always worked for klal Yisroel -with your lies and negative mailing.
Lets stop talking bad about R’Nachman. He is a good guy that got involved with some troublemakers.We can’t blame R’Nachman for this mess.He was try to help and didn’t realize that he is being used for as a stick.
R’Nachman i’m sure you will help many people in other ways.
Those in the know, know that Hikind is uniquely unashamedly, without pretense, money-hungry. “How many tables did you buy at my dinner?” is his lingo. Selling upper-echelon jobs and connections to the HIGHEST BIDDER!
Enough!