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Here’s an issue on which the Bush administration and the Spitzer administration are, regrettably, on the same page — the effort to block free-market housing in Brooklyn. The owners of Starrett City, an apartment complex of nearly 6,000 units in the East New York, want to sell their property to Clipper Equity LLC, for $1.3 billion. Governor Spitzer’s housing commissioner, Deborah Van Amerongen, was remarkably forthright, telling the Associated Press on Saturday that her office is blocking the deal because the buyer wants “to implement a market rate rent for all the units.” President Bush’s housing secretary, Alphonso Jackson, appeared side by side last month with Senator Schumer, Attorney General Cuomo, and Rep. Ed Towns, to announce that, “The tenants don’t want this transaction. It would be the worst kind of theft to steal all of this from them.”
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