Interesting read in the Times for sure.
Msgr. Thomas Healy, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows, a thriving church near the stadium, complained that the 1,900 units of affordable housing that were once the centerpiece of the proposed redevelopment are now an afterthought. Many of his Mexican, Ecuadorean and Dominican parishioners are living, he said, in overcrowded and substandard apartments.
“Bloomberg promised that the big thing in the project would be housing,” Monsignor Healy said. “Now it’s a grandiose mall, and in 20 years, maybe, we’ll get some housing. He doesn’t care about the poor.”
Let’s see, a billionaire mayor for life and some millionaire real estate developers on one side, and Msgr. Healy’s parishioners on the other side. Be sure to let me know when that affordable housing is built, I would like to blog about it.
