CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: More Housing is the Progressive Choice
James Lloyd |
“More housing at any income level lowers nearby rents. We progressives should therefore be fighting for new housing with every bone in our bodies.”
housing insecurity
City’s Immigrant Families Saw Higher Rates of Rent Burden, Overcrowded Homes in 2021: Report
Daniel Parra |
Among immigrant-headed households with children, 52 percent experienced rent burden in 2021, a new study describes, compared to 48 percent of households with kids headed by native-born New Yorkers. Non-citizen immigrants specifically saw the highest rates of rent burdened households: 55 percent for those without children and 59 percent of those with children.
Housing and Homelessness
NYC Pilots ‘Housing First’ Plan for Handful of Homeless Adults
David Brand |
The program run by the organization Volunteers of America-Greater New York has been called a positive first step, though the 80 units represent a sliver of New York City’s vacant supportive housing stock.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: An All-of-the-Above to Fix NYC’s Housing Crisis
Valerie White |
“We’re long past the point where we can squabble over one solution versus another. We have so many tools at our disposal—far too many of them sitting around gathering dust. It’s time we treat the housing problem like the crisis it is.”
Housing and Homelessness
NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 9-16
Mariam Hydara |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
2022 election
Hochul, Zeldin and Housing: A Breakdown
David Brand |
The candidates in the race for New York governor have vastly different platforms on housing. To start, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has a housing plan. Republican challenger and U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin does not.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: How the Other Half Still Lives in NYC Housing
Sateesh Nori |
“In 1890, Jacob Riis photographed and documented the inhumane conditions of tenements in New York City: the lack of light, air, space, and basic sanitation. Today, 132 years later, much of New York City’s housing stock is still bad: unsafe water, broken elevators, mold, lack of heat, roaches, and rats.”
Housing and Homelessness
NYC Housing Calendar, Nov. 3-9
Mariam Hydara |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Housing and Homelessness
Rise of the ‘SHIMBY’? New Report Outlines Steps to Social Housing
David Brand |
A new report describes the path to social housing in New York through 20 policy proposals, from overhauling the property tax code and abolishing the city’s tax lien sale to cracking down on landlord violations and boosting public funding for tenant organizing.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York’s Climate Crisis is a Housing Crisis
Deborah Helaine Morris, Thaddeus Pawlowski and Hugo Sarmiento |
“Hurricane Sandy damaged 10 percent of the city’s housing. In a city with a vacancy rate of 4.5 percent, even a temporary loss of the housing supply isn’t just a problem for those directly displaced: it tightens the market for everyone, making it harder and more expensive to find housing.”
