hotel transfers

At a Brooklyn Homeless Shelter, Staff and Residents Readying for Return

With the city’s hotel shelter transfers once again imminent, City Limits reached out to nonprofit providers to talk with shelter staff and visit the buildings where the city puts up New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.

By David Brand

daca

Programa de la acción diferida para los niños llegados en la infancia (DACA) cierra para nuevos solicitantes

By Daniel Parra

voting access

Advocates Continue to Press for In-Person Voting at NYC Jails

By Ese Olumhense

Opinion

Opinion: Congress Should Respect Puerto Rico’s Vote for Statehood

By Tony Mele

News

Age Justice

More New Yorkers are ‘Aging in Place’—But Growing Older at Home Isn’t Easy

City residents looking for alternatives to nursing home care, particularly those with limited incomes, confront an array of hurdles: lack of affordable housing, a shortage of safe and accessible apartments, not enough home health care aides and waiting lists at many programs.
By Gail Robinson
education

Opinion: This Fall, New York City Schools Should Return to Better Than ‘Normal’

‘We need to have the audacity to be bold, because our students need us now more than ever. Normal wasn’t working, not just for marginalized communities, but for most.’
By Selena Carrión
The Ride

Rise in Traffic Crashes Could Make 2021 Deadliest ‘Vision Zero’ Year Yet, Advocates Say

More than 120 people have been killed in city traffic incidents between January and June, a new report says.
By Griffin Kelly
Coronavirus

New York Nursing Homes, Once COVID-19 Hot Spots, Now Struggle to Vaccinate Staff

On average, only 66 percent of nursing home staff across the city have been vaccinated. Brooklyn nursing homes are faring the worst with these efforts—only 57 percent of Kings County staff are fully vaccinated so far, the data show.
By Liz Donovan
2021 elections

Here’s Who Officially Won NYC’s Primary Elections—And Which Two Races Will Have Recounts

While the majority of primary winners are Democrats who will not have challengers in the fall, Republican and third-party candidates are running in a handful of races, including the Staten Island borough president’s election and Council contests in Districts 15,19, 23, 24, 32 and 50.
By Ese Olumhense

Mapping the Future

Nonprofit’s Proposal Would Provide Apartments to Homeless CUNY Students

A 2019 survey of CUNY undergraduates found that 14 percent had been homeless over the previous year—including 18 percent of community college students—while 55 percent said they experienced housing insecurity.
NYC Pays $122 Million to Turn Bronx Cluster Sites into Housing for Homeless Families

The 14 building-deal marks the third time the city has purchased cluster site properties to convert into permanent homes. It also illustrates the complicated reliance on bad landlords to provide temporary shelter—and the business of handing those same owners tens of millions of dollars for their buildings.
NY’s Rent Relief Program Has Yet to Cut a Check Amid Inefficiencies and Frustrations

With seven weeks to go before state eviction protections expire, New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) has yet to cut a single check, and the organizations tasked with helping tenants say they’re hamstrung by inefficiencies.
Judge Halts Homeless Hotel Transfers Until City Accommodates Residents With Disabilities

The city must provide written notice to shelter residents at least a week before scheduled moves out of hotels, and ensure those with disabilities are informed of the right to request “reasonable accommodations” at least five days before a transfer, the judge ruled.
Formerly Homeless Families Go Two Months Without Gas at Harlem Apartment Complex

The property owner, a company connected to an infamous family of landlords, has yet to begin repairs, and tenants in six apartments say building staff have pressured them to return to shelters while they await a large-scale fix with no definitive timeline.

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City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

Many NYC Cooling Centers Closed by Dinner, Despite Heat Emergency

Of the hundreds of dedicated cooling centers in the city, only a portion were open around 7 p.m. Wednesday, while temperatures continued to hover in the low 90s.
Mayor Urges New Yorkers to Turn Appliances Off As City Endures Record-Breaking Heat Wave

This is the city’s second heat wave this year, less than two weeks into summer—and it is breaking a more than 50-year record. Temperatures at LaGuardia Airport were at 100 degrees as of 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, surpassing a high of 97 degrees set in 1964, according to the National Weather Service. Central Park reached 98 degrees, the highest since 2013.
Where NYC’s Mayoral Candidates Stand on Climate Change

As the primary race wraps up, endorsements from environmental groups abound. Who made the cut?

Age Justice

Seniors’ Housing Needs are a Special Challenge

Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers.
Aging in New York: City Wrestles with Poverty Among Seniors

Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one in five of them are poor.
More New Yorkers are ‘Aging in Place’—But Growing Older at Home Isn’t Easy

City residents looking for alternatives to nursing home care, particularly those with limited incomes, confront an array of hurdles: lack of affordable housing, a shortage of safe and accessible apartments, not enough home health care aides and waiting lists at many programs.

The Ride

Rise in Traffic Crashes Could Make 2021 Deadliest ‘Vision Zero’ Year Yet, Advocates Say

More than 120 people have been killed in city traffic incidents between January and June, a new report says.
Traffic Debt No Longer a Cause for License Suspension in New York

Advocates say the previous policy disproportionately impacted low-income people and people of color.
Bronx Residents—And a Developer—Weigh in on What Future Metro-North Stations Might Bring

The MTA will add four new Metro North stations to the East Bronx as part of its Penn Station Access Initiative. The Department of City Planning is researching the best ways to develop the surrounding neighborhoods, and garnering public feedback.

Investigations

Housing and Development

NYC’s ‘Hollowed Out’ Enforcement Units Struggle to Keep Pace on Housing Discrimination Cases

Source of income discrimination constitutes the most common form of illegal housing bias in NYC. Yet the city has only a handful of attorneys and staffers at the two agencies dedicated to tackling the monumental problem.
By David Brand
nyc mayoral race

Ray McGuire’s Billions in Deals Triggered Thousands of Layoffs

The New York City mayoral candidate says his achievements as a financier will equip him well to steer the city. But many of the mega-mergers he brokered left big batches of workers behind.
By Jarrett Murphy
Election 2021

In Advocating ‘Precision Policing,’ Adams Embraces a Term Police Critics Have Targeted

The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more.
By Jarrett Murphy
Election 2021

‘He’s a Bit of an Enigma’: What Eric Adams’ Development Record & Housing Plan Tell Us

He's raised big money from real estate, advocated for lots of development, and approved the majority of development deals he's considered—with a few important exceptions.
By Jarrett Murphy
2021 election

Andrew Yang Disrupts the Mayor’s Race, But Some of His Ideas Fall Flat

Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework?
By Jarrett Murphy

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