Remember the commercial where a man in scrubs performing a surgery turns out to be an imposter?  “You’re not Dr. Stewart!” says a shocked nurse. “No,” he replies. “But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” The tagline: “It won’t make you smarter. But you’ll feel smarter.” City Council members sometimes remind me of that fake doctor. Consider the mandates they are proposing to “increase housing affordability for low-income New Yorkers and families,” according to a press release. The mandates would actually throw a monkey wrench into the complex machinery of affordable housing development. The “problem” they […]

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