In reading, “De Blasio’s Doomed Housing Plan,” I was first taken aback by the fact that a “minimum wage earner would have to work 139 per week” (Stein) to afford the average apartment in New York. I find myself agreeing more with the article and less with the ideas of inclusionary zoning because with an AMI so high, very few people will be able to afford said housing. This sounds more to me like a tactic for it to appear that the poorer people are being helped while still appeasing the upper class. As one man told me whilst speaking on the sidewalk the other day: “You don’t have a voice unless you have money, because money is power.” Even so, with the main problem being that there are so many homeless individuals, why would it make sense to provide housing of about $61,000? This seems counterintuitive; it won’t help those people who need it most. Is public housing the answer to these dilemmas or are the problems in that just not being discussed?