In its inaugural issue, CLI examines how fiscal realities are shaping the city’s affordable-housing buildout. This synopsis points to some of the ways new units’ size, quality and genuine affordability could be affected.
Looking for improved pay and benefits, security guards seem to have at least one friend in a high place.
As city development projects requiring land other people are using gain momentum, some reformers advocate other routes toward fairness.
Apparently that’s what landlords think, according to a new study, but a proposed city law would fight bias against Section 8 voucher holders.
This book documents the history, politics and meaning of undesirable facility placement – and resistance.
The City Council hearings that will inform recommendations to the New York Police Department aren’t over, and neither is the range of feelings that they’re either beneficial, ineffectual or unnecessary.
A noted urban thinker assesses the continuing debate by city leaders and the great builder’s biographer over the meanings of Moses. The second in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
Police officers, lawyers, educators, labor leaders and more, all heading in and out of positions old and new.
A group of child welfare practitioners, advocates, academics, former public officials and parents puts forward new suggestions for city policymakers working to address the needs of a particularly needy group of youngsters.
Let’s make it worth employers’ financial while to hire formerly incarcerated people, says a member of City Council.
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