Affordable housing is a huge, and hugely important, issue in NYC...but it's not the only way to win or lose NYC's real estate vote.
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If Joe Lhota and Bill De Blasio really want to become mayor, all they need to do is promise all (or even just a couple!) of the following to New Yorkers:
- A mandatory washer-dryer with every apartment.
- A weekend in the Hamptons with every rent or property tax increase.
- Third year free for all market-rate renters.
- Third broker's fee free for ALL renters.
- Hotel credits for visiting guests (read: in-laws) so they never have to squeeze into a New Yorker's cramped apartment again.
- A law requiring neighborhood bodegas to deliver any and all items at any time during the day or night.
- A monthly $150 Fresh Direct stipend for every New Yorker living in a 3rd floor or higher walkup.
- City-funded pest-eradication expenses and full tax deductibility of all related expenses (including the cost to replace your bed bug infested furniture).
- Requirement that all landlords (slumlords included) must live in their buildings for at least one year every three years.
- A city-wide cap on holiday tipping.
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