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Viewed in isolation, a proposal to exempt small residential portfolios from new eviction protections could exclude hundreds of thousands of New York City apartments. Perhaps more significantly, this type of estimate isn’t easy to make.
“The 60-day shelter limit runs counter to the very purpose of shelters: to keep vulnerable homeless families and individuals safe and off the streets.”
La alcaldía dice que aún no ha comenzado a aplicar las evaluaciones de “circunstancias atenuantes” que podrían alargar la estadía en un refugio, mientras que migrantes siguen durmiendo en el suelo de una iglesia que ahora se utiliza como “overnight hospitality center” (centro de acogida para pasar la noche).
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“My search for legal representation was exhausting. I visited 16 different attorneys before I was able to secure representation. Each denial delivered a wave of hopelessness as I felt the looming 12-month deadline to apply for asylum inch closer and closer.”
For the second time since December, the Preservation Trust model has a strong lead among NYCHA voters.
Introduced in September as the third column in Adams’ City of Yes initiative—following separate proposals related to climate and commercial businesses—the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity is a broad plan that seeks to tackle the housing crisis with various zoning changes.
As state budget negotiations drag nearly two weeks late, a housing deal seems likely to coalesce—but it’s not there yet, as consequential details remain fluid.
“Will the Signature buildings be viewed as a one-off, or the tip of an iceberg of a more endemic problem?”
City Hall says it has not yet begun implementing assessments of the “extenuating circumstances” that could earn newly arrived immigrants an extended shelter stay—while some seeking another placement continue to sleep on the floor of a church now being used as an “overnight hospitality center.”
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