The deal on the mayor’s citywide Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals means the action now moves back to neighborhood plans—and the decisions by individual councilmembers and developers that will shape the housing that actually gets built.
There’s a long way to go between now and 200,000 units, but history may record this week as a turning point (and not just because it’s the start of life without Downton Abbey.)
After a brutal start to the century, manufacturing is rebounding in Brooklyn. But with competition for space only intensifying, can the new growth last?
City Hall unveiled statements of support from the Urban League and NAACP.
The housing commissioner names names, a Council caucus states terms and the yeas and nays are just days away for East New York.
Some think Mayor Bill de Blasio is overseeing a return to the days of deep dependency. Others wonder if perhaps today’s welfare system is just doing a better job of responding to legitimate need than Mayor Bloomberg’s.
This clickable map is your one-stop shop for reading up on the areas where the mayor has proposed a rezoning or is studying one.
Two men. One microphone. And a little housing-policy magic.
Some want Rikers to close altogether. The mayor says that’s not a realistic goal. But a Manhattan Assemblyman says the de Blasio administration should at least move pre-trail detainees off the island.
The Community Schools Initiative could make real progress at addressing the complex social pressures that low-income students face. But if test scores determine the fate of those schools, a UFT activist argues, they are unlikely to succeed.
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