Readers sound off on rezoning alternatives, flawed foreign policy and misleading polls

Affordable lodging astatine the disbursal of homeowners

Staten Island: The City of Yes zoning program was approved by cardinal committees past week. I’m hoping the afloat City Council sees this authorities for what it is: a pro-development inaugural dressed arsenic lodging policy.

The Daily News Editorial Board stated its enactment for this authorities this summertime (“Say yes to the Yes,” editorial, July 12). The presumption is that we indispensable physique much everywhere, now. I find this statement shortsighted. While I judge the metropolis tin assistance successful getting much affordable lodging built, the reply is not to scrap a zoning solution that has for decades protected the safety, quality and charm of neighborhoods. The Board besides argued that immoderate volition assertion the measure volition interaction middle-class homeowners and renters, specifically communities of color. I agree! It discounts middle-class homeowners’ lifelong concern successful our communities and undervalues our hard work, redeeming for years successful astir cases and paying premium outgo to unrecorded successful nicer areas. The editorial further stated: If you privation the suburbs, move.

There are aggregate options abbreviated of a wholesale alteration to zoning: up-zoning successful areas that marque logical sense, possibly converting commercialized abstraction to residential successful an easier manner, allowing single-room occupancy operation again, easing industrial-to-residential rezoning, downsizing Housing Authority units and ensuring that minimum low-income units are ever allotted arsenic portion of the operation support process. I’m definite determination are galore much ideas that could work.

If the Editorial Board is unhappy with the diversified, multiple-income neighborhoods this metropolis provides, to usage your ain words, determination are plentifulness of places “east, westbound and northbound of here.” John Conry

Bring it home

Manhattan: Re “Adams gets a large ‘yes,’ ” (Nov. 22): The connection precocious by the City Council represents monumental advancement toward a aboriginal with abundant affordable housing. Far excessively galore New Yorkers person ne'er been capable to spend unchangeable housing, yet this is the instauration upon which unchangeable lives are built. As 1 of the city’s largest stateless services providers, we spot the consequences of the nonaccomplishment to supply capable lodging each day. Housing instability is profoundly intertwined with different challenges similar intelligence illness, substance usage disorders and transgression justness involvement. Passing City of Yes is precisely the bold, decisive enactment New Yorkers request to make hopeful futures. Eric Rosenbaum, president and CEO, Project Renewal

Anti-senior pail policy

Bronx: I perfectly hatred the caller trash instrumentality rules. I and others connected my artifact are positive and minus 90 years old. How successful God’s satellite are we expected to spell retired astatine 8 p.m. to enactment trash out? It is acheronian and we each person astatine slightest 12 steps to spell down from our doors. A pail with wheels is excessively gangly for maine to assistance implicit my picket fence. As for the rats, I person seen 2 successful this vicinity successful each the years I person lived here. One was dying successful a neighbor’s gait and the different ran retired erstwhile a h2o main was being replaced up the block. We support our artifact clean! How astir the City Council, the rat czar and the politician fig retired a solution for us? Suppose we get “senior garbage” labels for our pails truthful we tin enactment them retired successful daylight? Connie Saddlier

Repping PR

Bronx: Dear Rep. Ritchie Torres: Words backed up by enthusiastic advocacy for the 3.1 cardinal U.S. citizens successful Puerto Rico is contagious. Well done. I anticipation it volition animate others crossed the governmental aisle and wrong the Democratic Party. Gene Roman

Isolated superpower

San Mateo, Calif.: Are we suffering from overseas argumentation dementia? This whitethorn person little to bash with presidents oregon their intelligence information than it does with our overseas argumentation constitution and its information aft immoderate 240 years of existence. Recently, we utilized our veto 4 times successful the UN Security Council to decision calls for a ceasefire successful the Gaza genocide and the related battles with Lebanon and Yemen. That ballot was 14 successful favour and lone the U.S. against. We could comparison that to the caller UN General Assembly ballot to extremity the embargo against Cuba (60 years and ongoing) for the involvement of interest. That was 187 to 2. Yes, the United States appears to beryllium drifting toward irrelevance oregon worse with its continued inability to get with the remainder of the planet’s quality colonisation connected common-sense policies. Is determination a doc successful the house? Mike Caggiano

He said what?

Staten Island: To Voicer Andrew Toulonis: Just erstwhile was it that God confided successful you that helium wanted to usage pandemics to power population? God gave antheral the quality to think, frankincense allowing antheral to usage that quality to forestall illness done the usage of vaccines. Incidentally, adjacent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not espouse your ridiculous thought that God wanted to usage pandemics to power population. Although subject has proved otherwise, Kennedy believes vaccines origin autism. Eileen Zanelli

Thanks, but nary thanks

Chicago: Typically this clip of year, your readers are asked to taxable letters expressing their gratefulness for family, friends and country. However, successful airy of the caller election, it’s not casual for maine to beryllium generous with my gratitude considering that our recently elected person has repeatedly betrayed the existent tone of Thanksgiving. And portion helium did win successful getting reelected, the question remains: At what outgo to our federation and its treasured traditions? So, delight forgive maine for not being much grateful, but I’m conscionable excessively bushed and overmuch excessively acrophobic to beryllium thing else. Bob Ory

Huffing and puffing

Yonkers: To Voicer Douglas Clifford: Your disdain for our soon-to-be 47th president (whether you similar it oregon not — and JD Vance for 8 years aft that) is truthful profound that I suggest you petition support to enactment successful the Thanksgiving Day Parade this week arsenic a caller summation to the procession of blistery aerial balloons. Ralph A. Manente

Unlikely to listen

Brooklyn: One of the reasons Kamala Harris mislaid is due to the fact that the Democrats person mislaid the quality to scope retired to groups they disagree with. In that vein, cipher was and is inactive captious of Donald Trump than “Morning Joe” Scarborough and his staff. That is wherefore the disapproval of his gathering with Trump is surely disturbing. Like it oregon not, Trump was elected president, and ignoring him is not helpful. “Morning Joe” is pursuing the maxim of the late, large Winston Churchill: It is amended to jaw-jaw than war-war. It is ever amended to effort to contiguous differing viewpoints to our leaders. However, unfortunately, I uncertainty that Trump volition perceive to immoderate viewpoint that differs with his own. Alan Podhaizer

Close indeed

Bronx: I don’t blasted Voicer Lester Simon for claiming the polls were incorrect successful saying the contention was neck-and-neck. I blasted the Daily News. Why person you not reported that the fashionable ballot betwixt Trump and Harris was 50.3% to 48.1%? Why was my missive connected this not printed? Harris received much than 6 cardinal less votes than Biden got successful 2020. Why were Democrats, who successful 2016 were consenting to ballot for horrible Hillary Clinton — adjacent against a bully candidate, Bernie Sanders — unwilling to ballot for Harris? She was acold from perfect, but inactive overmuch amended than Clinton oregon Trump. How travel you physique up Trump arsenic charismatic? In the past, charisma was John Wayne and Elvis Presley. Today, there’s Denzel Washington and The Rock. Trump? People who travel him and successful the past, Hitler, are the crushed they were much than conscionable nuts ranting connected a thoroughfare corner. Richard Warren

Fraud flip-flop

Madisonville, Pa.: So, the MAGA Republicans privation america to judge the result of the predetermination and rally down the winner. You mean conscionable similar they did aft the past election? Funny however the lone just and unstolen elections are the ones they win. Tom Mielczarek

A amended place

Manhattan: Re “Class enactment to the end” (Nov. 22): A existent person has courageousness successful the look of adversity and grace. Daniel Jones has both. I privation him the champion and anticipation helium soon lands with an NFL squad whose absorption supports him. Susan A. Stark