Gotham Gazette and City Limits talk over the housing-policy news of the week, from a slowdown on the Jerome Avenue rezoning, to a ranking of neighborhoods by housing risk, to the latest on NextGen NYCHA and the latest city effort to make bad buildings better.
City Hall argues that advice from some outside political operatives (who double as lobbyists) can be shielded from public disclosure. It’s a new spin on two familiar problems.
Is the de Blasio administration undercutting its own education vision by allowing charter co-locations in its Community Schools?
It’s been the city’s practice for two decades to sell property-tax debts to a private trust, generating revenue for the city and for investors—but, advocates say, hurting low-income homeowners.
The de Blasio administration has shown openness to community land trusts but organizations, not the city, are taking the boldest steps toward trying what backers say offers the best chance to achieve permanently affordable housing at scale.
Gotham Gazette and City Limits take a fair and balanced approach to running through the week’s biggest housing stories.
The administration says it will use subsidies, not zoning, to serve New Yorkers with extremely low incomes. But with all the costs and tradeoffs that entails, how many deeply affordable units is the city likely to produce?
That plan for Flushing mapped out by a business group later accused of unethical activity—did that merely set the stage or does it call the tune for the pending city proposal?
A federal court is considering whether federal law prohibits the city’s policy of setting aside 50 percent of apartments in new, subsidized buildings for local residents.
When the Rent Guidelines Board approved a 0 percent hike last year, landlords warned of impending disaster.
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