Housing and Homelessness
Max & Murphy: The Affordable Housing Balancing Act
Jarrett Murphy |
Gotham Gazette and City Limits take a fair and balanced approach to running through the week’s biggest housing stories.
Affordable Housing
Affordable Housing: How Low Can de Blasio Go?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
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?
Affordable Housing
Has Developers’ Wish-List Shaped Queens Rezoning Plan?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
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?
Affordable Housing
Max & Murphy On Housing: Bye Bye, Bernie. Hello Again, 421-a
Jarrett Murphy |
Gotham Gazette and City Limits review the week in housing policy news, from the Democratic candidates touring NYCHA buildings, to Mayor de Blasio winning another vote in favor of rezoning.
Advocacy
Other Nabes and de Blasio Team Draw Lessons from East New York Rezoning Struggle
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
As housing justice advocates across the city review the outcomes in East New York, many say the results attest to the power of community organizing, especially when stakeholders put forth detailed policy alternatives.
Bronx
Bronx Groups Push City for Detailed Study of Rezoning’s Impact
Jarrett Murphy |
New York City’s discussion of zoning, housing and displacement tends to occur in broad strokes. A coalition of Bronx groups wants to dial into the details in an unprecedented way.
Affordable Housing
Council Committee OKs East New York Rezoning Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
After two years of pressure, protests and plans, the first de Blasio rezoning cleared its first legislative hurdle.
Brooklyn
East New York Deal Looks Likely to Disappoint Many Advocates
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Details were still fluid but it appeared the final deal fell well short of what advocates had been hoping for.
city planning
City’s Staten Island Rezoning Targets Contested Territory
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
In many ways, Bay Street is like corridors in other de Blasio administration neighborhood plans. One difference is the tensions over race, policing and ‘quality of life’ that have played out there.
Brooklyn
Reporters and Gentrification: Enablers? Chroniclers? Resisters?
Jarrett Murphy |
Brooklyn Deep’s Third Rail podcast invited City Limits to discuss the role of hyperlocal media in covering development, displacement and ‘the G word.’
