The city says its proposed mandatory inclusionary housing program exacts as much affordability as the market will bear. But how did it reach that conclusion?
Unfounded fears, legitimate doubts and ambitious alternatives have greeted the mayor’s two proposals to change zoning rules to permit greater housing density and require affordable housing.
If Industry City’s new owners are hoping to paint themselves as the saviors of Sunset Park, it’s a message that has backfired with some of its neighbors.
If the administration is truly open to community input on how to improve the Jerome Avenue corridor, the report released by the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision gives planners much to chew on. Watch a video report.
Community organizations in the Bronx say residential and commercial tenants in areas around the Kinsgbridge Armory and the proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning are seeing higher rents and more harassment.
Community leaders in Bushwick thought they’d struck a deal to make affordable housing part of a big new residential development. Then the developer sold his stake.
The administration’s proposal also affects industrial space, parks, schools and transit. The city and critics often disagree on where there’ll be problems, and if so, how to solve them.
We’ve been talking about mandatory inclusionary zoning since candidate de Blasio proposed it more than two years ago. Finally, public review—and a defining policy battle for the administration—begins.
City Planning says it welcomes community-generated rezoning plans. But one such proposal—seven years in the making—is not getting much support.
The push to expand NYU’s core campus followed all the rules of the city’s Uniform Land-Use Review Process. But because of flaws in that system, the author argues, community members still felt sidelined.
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