“This project speaks not just to one isolated facility but the current administration’s overarching goal to make all of New York City a ‘Cop City’ in and of itself.”
Housing advocates in the City Council scored wins—including an additional $2 billion in capital funds for the Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)—but more is needed, they say.
Según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en inglés) entre 2012 y 2022, las tasas estimadas de nuevas infecciones de VIH disminuyeron un 23 por ciento. Sin embargo, las nuevas infecciones están muy concentradas en grupos raciales y étnicos como los afroamericanos, indígenas americanos y, especialmente, los latinos.
City Limits’ Executive Editor Jeanmarie Evelly recently sat down with Vicki Been, former deputy mayor of housing under Mayor Bill de Blasio, for a conversation about the role of community engagement in solving the housing shortage.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
A report that projects the impact of sea level rise on the U.S coastline ranked New York as the ninth state with the most critical infrastructure at risk of flooding in 2050, and the sixth in 2100.
“The reality is that we have a housing crisis, but the South Bronx cannot bear the burden of affordable housing on its own,” said Councilmember Rafael Salamanca, whose district produced the greatest number of affordable units last year and over the past decade. “We need all 51 council districts to do their fair share.”
“While from time to time, our system does hold people of wealth, power, and/or influence accountable for their violations of the law, these kinds of cases do not represent the bulk, or even close to it, of the criminal prosecutions that take place here.”
Clemons is an accomplished non-profit executive with a deep passion for effecting change in the lives of marginalized communities.
After weeks of negotiations, the unarmed security program that was poised to end on June 30 will continue.
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