Government
NYC Housing Calendar, Feb. 2-9
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Government
NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 19-26
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Government
NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 5-11
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Government
Over Half of NYC’s Food Stamp Applicants Left Waiting as Staffing Shortage Deepens
David Brand and Mariam Hydara |
The Human Resources Administration (HRA) is promptly processing just 46.3 percent of applications for SNAP benefits, commonly known as food stamps, the agency told councilmembers at a committee hearing on the impact and cause of the bureaucratic delays.
Citywide
NYC Housing Calendar, Dec. 8-15
David Brand and 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
NYC Needs Thousands of Apartments for the Formerly Incarcerated. 50 Face Furious Opposition
David Brand |
“Just Home”—a NYC Health + Hospitals (HHC) plan to convert an empty staff residence on the Jacobi Hospital campus into supportive housing for a few dozen people with serious medical problems discharged from Rikers Island—is a pressure cooker for many of the most fraught issues in the city: homelessness, mental health, development, and the risk of crime, whether real or perceived.
Housing and Homelessness
Won Greenlights 3,200-Unit Astoria Development, Paving Way for Council Approval
David Brand |
The latest version of the Innovation Qns plan features 1,436 income-restricted apartments, around 45 percent of the total. “We have set a new precedent for building affordable housing on private land,” the neighborhood’s Councilmember Julie Won said in prepared remarks ahead of the vote.
Government
Building in Bushwick? Councilmember Lays Out Priorities for Rezonings
David Brand |
In a document issued Monday, Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez laid out her priorities for any new development that requires changes to the zoning code in one of the city’s most intense real estate markets. Under the City Council’s informal tradition of member deference, local members have effective veto power over land use applications in their districts.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: E-bike Battery Regulation Isn’t Anti-immigrant or Anti-worker. It’s Common Sense.
Baruch Herzfeld |
“We aren’t helping delivery workers by forcing them to charge unsafe, unregulated equipment in their apartments. We need more regulation to protect these hard-working riders and their neighbors, not less.”
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.
