After I wrote about the agony of dealing with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, I received a request from Vital City. The civic group wanted other examples of ways Zohran Mamdani could make the city more functional and affordable — not fantastical ideas that cost billions of dollars, but simple “blocking and tackling,” to use a football term for the basics. Here is one that speaks to a larger problem of bureaucratic sludge. Every two years, I help my father-in-law, who is 88, renew his senior citizen homeowners’ exemption, or SCHE. Like many government programs for seniors, it involves a process […]

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