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While I applaud the larger conversation taking place around homelessness in New York City and how to prevent it, we need to broaden the discussion to include citizens who are living paycheck to paycheck.’
The city will distribute a $1.65 million grant from Enterprise Community Partners to three community land trusts and to fund a technical assistance program to assist many new ones.
The de Blasio administration’s second rezoning now goes to City Council for a final binding vote.
Before the recession, advocates sounded the alarm about big-time investors paying huge sums for buildings with rent-stabilized apartments and low-income tenants. The concern has returned.
In the first step of the ULURP process, the Community Board 11 land-use committee set conditions for its approval of the administration’s plan, demanding lower density and more affordable housing.
It was clear that the Northern Manhattan Is Not For Sale coalition, Save Inwood Library and other neighborhood groups opposed to displacement or overdevelopment had turned out in full force, each with their own, sometimes overlapping demands.
Though the De Blasio administration has taken steps to reduce barriers to the affordable housing lottery, a report by the public advocate argues that reforms must go farther.
Gains made in recent years are threatened under the budget cuts, but they are not the only potential casualty. Rule changes at HUD may increase rents for one-in-20 New Yorkers.
Missed our spirited panel debate with three experts on rezonings and the affordability crisis? You can now watch it from your McMansion or closet.
Announcing in an election year a plan to create 90 new homeless shelters takes a certain amount of courage. But that doesn’t mean it will solve the problem.
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