Nicholas Bloom, City University of New York (CUNY) - pro-subsidized housing and transit researcher
Dr. Dedrick Blue, Church of Seventh Day Adventists - church boy
Rafael Cestero, Community Preservation Corporation - woke multifamily housing mortgage lender, grew out of the NY housing movement in the 70s
Bea De la Torre, Trinity Foundation - church girl
Charlie Dulik, Housing Conservation Coordinators - Hell's Kitchen anti-gentrificaiton group
Emily Eisner, Fiscal Policy Institute - progressive NYC think tank that wants stronger rent controls
Carolee Fink, COO M Squared - vague "consultancy firm"
Moses Gates, Regional Plan Association - progressive independent planning agency
Lisa Gomez - ???
Annemarie Gray, Open New York - broad "pro-housing", fronts demands for social and subsidized housing
David Greenberg, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) - grassroots organization support agency
Adriene Holder, Legal Aid Society - good lawyers
Olivia Leirer, New York Communities for Change - anti-eviction, pro-public housing community org
Allison Nickerson, LiveOn NY - senior aging support nonprofit
Manny Pastreich, 32BJ SEIU - union
Carlina Rivera, New York State Association for Affordable Housing - what it sounds like
Brian Scott, Pastor - church boy
Alina Shen, CAAAV - Asian civil rights advocacy group, does anti-gentrification work
Iziah Thompson, Community Service Society - religious homeless support organization
Jed Walentas, REBNY - Real Estate Board of New York
Matt Wambua, Merchants Capital - affordable housing mortgage lender
Cea Weaver, Tenant Bloc - very progressive tenant organization, anti-landlord and pro social housing
Barika Williams, Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development - progressive housing rights and anti-gentrification org
Paul Williams, Center for Public Entetprise - think tank that advocates for clean energy (especially nuclear and geothermal) and state-run development projects

Mostly it's a pretty solid list, tbh. There are two or three that seem bad but they're massively outweighed. They look like fig leaves to real estate without any chance of getting their stuff across.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

They look like fig leaves to real estate without any chance of getting their stuff across.

Well, that's good. I'm not sure why he feels the need to do this, but I guess it's an inevitable part of electoralism in the liberal system. Thanks for putting in the work on the list!

[–] jack@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He has to contend with actually existing power structures. If even Xi Jinping has to make common cause with capitalists, it's no surprise that the mayor of NYC would need to do the same.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In fairness to him, this seems like a minor concession, unlike the ones he has made with respect to the NYPD.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, keeping Tisch is a far, far bigger concern

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, IMO the walking back with the NYPD was already the final nail in the coffin of any radicalism from Mamdani. That's probably the single most important issue (or close to it) for a socialist in New York that the mayor can affect. A lot of the other issues depend on it.

IMO the "well he didn't want to be killed" response is cope, keeping Tisch is a solid indicator that nothing at all will fundamentally change with the NYPD. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I don't expect it.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like, if the NYPD is going to kill you, offense is the best defense. Maybe you need some kind of compromise pick, but to retain the billionaire hyper-zionist who might actually kill you? Foolish.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Like, if the NYPD is going to kill you, offense is the best defense.

Thank you! This is what always bugged me about that argument. "They're going to kill me so I'm going to roll over and play dead" is not a strategy. First, what's the point of winning if that's your solution (do nothing when threatened)? Second, if they were going to kill you and you roll over, they'll probably just kill you anyway. All you've done is make it easy.

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want to do housing projects you need to have people with relationships to developers

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's a limitation of electoral politics. shrug-outta-hecks

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Its a limitation of institutional memory. China and the soviet union did the same kind of collaboration with capitalists poat-revolution

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

China and the soviet union did the same kind of collaboration with capitalists poat-revolution

I'm willing to give Mamdani the benefit of the doubt, but this is a ridiculous comparison. The revolutionary party of the proletariat doing something as part of an explicitly and openly planned process is not the same as the social democrat mayor doing something because he will not actually be able to implement his agenda. Mamdani is not going to expropriate the resulting housing, or do anything else that drastically limits the profit seeking behavior of the real-estate developers.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is up with all the church people here? That seems the most weird.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

Deeply connected to communities, especially minority ones.