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New York City\u2019s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is “moving the goalposts” on poverty in the nation\u2019s largest city with his newly unveiled racial equity plan to justify a massive expansion of government intervention, a top city policy analyst warns.<\/p>\n

Mamdani released his “Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan” earlier this month, which quickly received pushback<\/u><\/a> from President Donald Trump\u2019s Justice Department as well as from the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Santiago Vidal Calvo, who told Fox News Digital that when the report uses a “true cost of living” to claim 62% of New Yorkers can\u2019t make ends meet in the city, it\u2019s a ploy to declare a crisis that needs more government.<\/p>\n

“What he\u2019s essentially doing is moving the goalposts,” Vidal Calvo explained. “He\u2019s essentially saying that what the federal government qualifies as somebody below the poverty line \u2014 which is essentially like $34,000, $35,000 a year, those might be like 2024 numbers, but it\u2019s pretty close to that \u2014 we\u2019re essentially moving the goalposts so anybody under $160,000 with children cannot afford to live in New York City.”<\/p>\n

“Those numbers, in reality, if you live in New York City, they don\u2019t sound crazy, they don\u2019t sound, you know, high. But in all of reality, for any single person across America, $160,000 is, you know, a breadwinner. It\u2019s essentially enough money to raise a family and to have children and to have a good life. So when we move the goalposts into that direction, without actually recognizing what are the underlying issues of the disease, what are the actual problems that make New York City expensive, then we\u2019re just attributing a problem and throwing a dart at the board and saying, ‘This is it.'”<\/p>\n

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The “reality” of the situation, Vidal Calvo says, is that you “don\u2019t make a place more affordable by making people earn more” but instead the city needs to “ask the right questions” about policies that drive wage growth and new housing development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So the issue here is that we are focusing on a problem that the socialists in City Hall want to believe\u2014that if you give people more money, they essentially can access more things,” Vidal Calvo said. “But you\u2019re not asking what is the tradeoff of giving people more money. And just by placing that the ‘True Cost of Living’ in New York City is $160,000 a year for people with children, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that people, first, can afford that life or, second, they are able to get those salaries.”<\/p>\n

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The high cost of living in New York City is driven by several factors, including housing, which is an area where Vidal Calvo says City Hall needs to “encourage more housing being built around the city.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s how you lower the price of housing,” he said. “It\u2019s not by freezing rent, it\u2019s not by stabilizing markets\u2014normally what that leads is to more and higher prices.”<\/p>\n

Rather than a giant administrative effort to grow government with more departments and staffers, Vidal Calvo explained that the city should instead be reforming zoning to build faster, slash permitting delays, make it easier to establish child care facilities, reduce administrative barriers, and create opportunities for employers to hire more people and recruit talent from across the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mamdani’s racial equity plan has drawn intense scrutiny from conservatives over its conclusions on race and efforts to base government action to address racial disparities, including from DOJ\u00a0Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon who said she will “review” the matter.<\/p>\n

Vidal Calvo, who recently published a New York Post op-ed<\/a> on Mamdani’s plan, told Fox News Digital, “I feel like this is just another way to put DEI on the table without calling DEI.”<\/p>\n

“<\/strong>And we have now found that in academia, in many government programs, in many existing architectures of social structures, DEI does not work, and unfortunately, this might be just another case in which it fails, and not because of the well-intended reason of trying to make everybody earn a living, because I feel like that’s a good intention that everybody can have,” Vidal Calvo explained. “But it’s about the solutions that they’re trying to actually approach. It’s about methodology of how they’re actually trying to approach this method. You cannot argue that just because somebody is a different race, it’s become insanely more unaffordable to make a living in New York City. That’s not how it works.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mamdanis-racial-equity-plan-hidden-moving-goalposts-ploy-justify-massive-gov-expansion-expert <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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