Immigrant advocates say they would prefer to continue to work with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, citing past accomplishments like the Excluded Workers Fund, and worry what a potential Lee Zeldin governorship would mean for their causes.
“We must encourage our communities to vote, knowing politicians can make life-altering decisions that impact issues important for all Americans, specifically in our work for racial equity.”
The candidates in the race for New York governor have vastly different platforms on housing. To start, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has a housing plan. Republican challenger and U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin does not.
Jimmy McMillan’s performance in a gubernatorial debate in October 2010 sealed his status in New York political lore and cemented a six-word slogan into our vernacular. Today, he is fighting to hold on to his apartment from a nursing home in Queens.
This Oct. 26 marks City Limits’ 46th anniversary of informing and empowering New Yorkers with local investigative journalism.
El 6 de octubre el presidente Joe Biden proclamó la concesión del indulto por el delito de posesión simple de marihuana a “todos los ciudadanos estadounidenses actuales y los residentes permanentes legales que cometieron el delito de posesión simple de marihuana”, dice el comunicado, dejando por fuera a inmigrantes.
Según el Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC por sus siglas en inglés), los tres estados con mayor número de detenidos son Texas, 6,996, Louisiana, 3,436, y Arizona, 2,051. “No es de extrañar que los condados de Texas y el sur de California —puntos focales de las detenciones del ICE— fueron donde más aprehensiones se realizaron”, según el informe.
A dedicated task force and newly selected facilitator will be empowered to hold the city and private developers accountable to more than 50 “points of agreement” drafted to secure final support for the Gowanus transformation plan, which included a pledge to fund nearby NYCHA repairs.
Advocates and progressive lawmakers have slammed the moves for a lack of transparency and for further separating detainees from their communities, families, and attorneys. Meanwhile, about 20 detainees who remained at the New York jail were moved to another unit within the facility, which uses a different communications system that has made it harder for them to stay in touch with their attorneys, detainees and their lawyers told City Limits.
The dearth of affordable housing across the city—and the nation—should prompt Congress to increase rental assistance programs and supercharge the National Housing Trust Fund, Sarah Saadian of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) told WBAI’s City Watch. The fund sends money to states to develop homes for extremely low-income Americans.
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