After my queries regarding the affordable housing chart, ESD says it's "performing due diligence" after conveying the developers' information.
My newsletter yesterday analyzed and critiqued the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park affordable housing chart provided by Empire State Development (ESD) after a request from the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation. See A Dive Into Affordability Prompts a Metaphysical Question , subtitled "If apartments open to middle-income households rent for well below the maximum, do they qualify as moderate-income?" A week earlier, I had pointed out one discrepancy, and shared it with ESD, the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project: the chart ignored the swap of eleven middle-income units at 535 Carlton Ave. for moderate-income ones, thus enabling big tax savings down the block at the 550 Vanderbilt condo building. See The "Zoning Lot" Hustle , subtitled, "In 2017, eleven rental apartments got cheaper. That saved condo buyers down the block millions." Moderate- or middle-income? I then found another potential discrepancy: I initially counted 24 stu