The Mayor’s ballot referendums “do not fund or even mandate deeply affordable units, nor do anything to repair public housing or preserve at-risk rent-regulated homes,” Layla Law-Gisiko writes in The New York Times. “By overstimulating development, they could give landlords an incentive to tear down apartment buildings without guaranteeing replacement housing at comparable rents. . .
“Voters should reject Proposals 2, 3 and 4 because they vest power in the mayor, concentrate decisions among a few positions whose holders are often backed by real-estate funding, and silence the public. That is not democracy.”