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These four developments were originally built by trade unions as affordable, limited-equity housing, but in the late 1990’s they all went market rate. As part of “slum clearance” renewal, old tenements on the SPURA site were razed in the late 1960’s, displacing around 2,000 residents — many of them low-income — and a variety of small businesses. Ironically, a stumbling block to SPURA’s redevelopment has been opposition from some Grand St. co-op residents to low-income and affordable housing on the site who fear it would lower their property values.

New group is working to get SPURA out of park, into gear | amNewYork

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Layered SPURA

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(Re)Visiting SPURA

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Exploring SPURA

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Visualizing SPURA

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They Kept a Lower East Side Lot Vacant for 47 Years

Sheldon Silver and William E. Rapfogel worked for decades to keep low-income housing out of a Jewish enclave.

Also bad politics: refusing to integrate into the plan the potential (and underutilized) development sites owned by the NY City Housing Authority sites adjacent to the urban renewal area.

There are at least two sites in the immediate vicinity that could have been brought into the plan and used to further up the affordable housing count. The most desirable one being directly south of one the Seward Park Extension towers.