Even in the parts that are a bit sketchy, prices are outrageously high.

Even if Ratner would be getting subsidies partly to build affordable housing, I think that's basically a scam. I think the best way to create affordable housing is to persuade rich people to move to nice new houses and leave nice old hand-me down houses for poor people.

Housing built specifically for poor people is usually pretty awful.

So, OK, maybe the original poster should have gone to the meeting equipped with more data, but I think any project like this should be presumed guilty until proven innocent.