When housing takes priority over parking space
Drivers and car parking concerns have to take a back seat to affordable and supportive housing for the poor and the elderly in New York City
New York
SO many development battles in major cities around the world fall into easy narratives (villainy versus virtue, for instance) that we tend to imagine them all possessing moral fault lines that are clearly visible: a set of capitalist savages on one side, and on the other, the marginalised agents of a more noble civic mission.
That scenario has proved vulnerable to inconsistency. This year, a group of neighbours inhabiting a patch of the Upper West Side in New York City began a campaign called Save Manhattan Valley.
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