Guest op-eds, City Limits bloggers and reaction from readers
“The time is now. We cannot ignore the gun violence epidemic that disproportionately affects Black and Brown children. It is our moral obligation to fight for their safety, well-being, and equal opportunity.”
“We must not be complacent. People of trans experience in many parts of the country are being targeted for simply being who we are. New York has an opportunity to be a safe haven for the trans community.”
“Despite the mayor’s repeated statements that he wants to fund more ‘upstream’ services that address the city’s mental health crisis, his agenda, instead, focuses on post-crisis points and increased law enforcement. To effectively address the City’s mental health crisis, the mayor must invest in more preventive and evidenced-based supports.”
“It’s an issue with statewide implications. Not only does Seneca Meadows accept trash from all around New York—30 percent of it comes from New York City—the landfill exports toxic leachate to Buffalo, Chittenango, Steuben County, Watertown, and Newark.”
“Between chronic underfunding, a change in administration, and pandemic staff shortages, the process of filing and resolving complaints at the Commission has slowed to a standstill. Mayor Eric Adams’s current budget contains even more cuts to the commission which do nothing but create unnecessary harm to everyday New Yorkers.”
“421-a or any alternative’s inclusion in our toolbox to tackle the housing crisis is by no means a silver bullet, but its absence has already and will continue to hamstring our ability to respond. We cannot accept this if we want to solve our housing crisis.”
“Police, Sanitation, and other government workers have long called Staten Island home, thanks to its affordability when compared to the other boroughs, great schools, and safer neighborhoods. Yet that affordability is now being threatened by a pricing program to fund a system that consistently underinvests in our great borough.”
If the RGB is meant to protect tenants, its record is mixed at best. But the alternative, a city of free market rentals, would be much worse. How can this be explained? And what can it teach the tenants movement nationwide?
“As a city, do we want to make people suffer through three months of homelessness before we give them a chance to regain stability through housing?”
“It’s not just enough to realize it is our hands that have created the ecological disaster our world faces, but it is also our responsibility to address it.”
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