Responding to the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, the Department of City Planning presented its long-awaited draft rezoning framework to East Harlem’s community board.
No, not the 1987 Patrick Swayze movie. The nation’s mayors want a little new infrastructure, and then some more new infrastructure, if Hillary Clinton is elected.
Touting community benefits, Councilman Rafael Espinal supported the rezoning of East New York in April. We checked in with him on the impact of the rezoning—and the delivery on promises—so far.
It’s unclear how closely the city’s rezoning proposal will follow the most detailed community-based plan to emerge during the two-plus years of the de Blasio administration’s housing push.
Community groups pressed for deeper housing affordability and protections for workers. Other voices stressed different priorities.
The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.
At a conference on displacement, the city and advocates split over whether public and private development is a cause of residential displacement, or a potential antidote to it.
The scope of the homeless crisis justifies the city locating shelters even in neighborhoods that don’t want them. The scale of the school crisis, the author argues, ought to warrant the same kind of no-holds-barred response.
A coalition that has pushed for more affordable housing and local job protections says it was ‘deeply disappointed’ by a scoping document released last week.
Supportive housing works. But some works better than the rest. Providers are using their experiences during the first 26 years of supportive housing construction to refine their model as a new wave looms.
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