Jesse Hamilton, currently a contender in the race to fill Yvette Clarke's seat, is reaching out to the blogs. That's all good.
What's vaguely troubling is the message he's sending. Take for example this from Room 8 [1]:
We should not seek to build housing which only benefits single people or childless couples. Giving tax breaks to developers who bring to market studios and one bedrooms as affordable housing units sends the wrong message about who we are trying to encourage to stay and prosper in NYC. Affordable, multiple bedroom housing should be the goal of any changes in the 421 A and also 421 B laws seeking to create new housing.
What, singles can move elsewhere?
It's worth pointing out that per the U.S. Census [2], in the 11th Congressional District, which wholly covers the 40th City Council District, only 34.1% of females and 44.0% of males are married (the U.S. average is 52.1% and 56.7% respectively). Concurrently, however, average household and family sizes in the 11th are slightly above the U.S. average, at 2.71 people per household and 3.38 per family. So there is most certainly room for debate about more multi-bedroom apartments; but that debate could be held positively, not by talking about right and wrong kinds of people, and should also include the question of cost. It's not a zero-sum game in any sense of the word.
Hamilton is certainly running a campaign focused on families: witness his signage [3]. That shouldn't take the form, however, of pitting families against singles. Aside from being vaguely off-putting (not to mention reminiscent of republican verbiage), the numbers, see above, don't support it. And I'd argue that the community doesn't need further divisions; there's plenty of those already.
There's some room to refine this message, methinks.
On the web: Jesse Hamilton [4]
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